This is an analysis of the poem The Stone that begins with:

A man! A man! There is a man loose in Canada,
A man of heroic mould, a 'throwback' of earlier ages,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefgec Xhi XeXjXdcddfikidifXeiekEb X bbfiXjgElXXlXbmbfkbbibced iiiidbXlXi X ekXhXcbefgd diniikbieflcjjihfXXifbeX X bX gene ddgXiXbefddijkihii kaXXXbdm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,3,23,1,25,10,1,11,24,1,2,4,18,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101100110100 0100101010010010 1001010010101 01011010110 0110011010 101111011100 110100101100 11000101111110 110110011010 1101011011100 00111010110 1001010110 110100101101100 11111110 11010001000 1011 10011000010010 1100100101110010 11010100101001 01101010010010 0110011010010 0111011111111011 111010110100101 100101001001010 110101101001 1010010010010110 11010001010001 11001 10111110001010 111011101010 11111101100101 1101110101 1011011101100101 1011 11010010 11 01011110110 10010010010110 1100100101010010 0101101111010 1010101011001 11100111011110010 1100100101100100 1011 1010001100111 01101000101110 110010010101 0110011001100101 10010101011010 1001101001010 0110111010111 10100110101001 11001011001001 01100101010011 0101011 010101010 0110100010010011001 11001101001010 01010010101001 010010001 1001010101010 1101011010 110111101 111111101100 100010100000101111 1001001010110 0101011001 11011111010 11101101011 110010110110110 110101 11 1001011110111 1001110101010101 1001110101011 10111101110 010111101101011 100111011 010010101010 0101110111101 011000110011001 101011101111010 01011101010 10101110101010 1001010111010 11010010010010 1010010111110 10010101100110100 101010010010 10100101010010110 101111010 010100100101 11110101011 11001101101 0100100101001 1101000101010 01110110101 011110 1001010101100010 1111010100101 101110101 110010010111100 101011111010 01011001010 10111001110011 110101111101 11101011011100 11 11011010111 111011110100 10110011010010 1111100011 1111111001101101 111110100011 1101000100010 101011100010110 111111111010 101001001110 0101011100010 01010101100 010011010011010 0011010100 110110010 100101110110110 1101110010010 10111011010101 11010101010011 011110110111 11101001111010 110111101110 00111100110 110111111010010 1010101101010 110111100110100 010111010100 0100101100100 010101111010010 011110010010 111010010 11011111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 500
  • Average number of words per stanza: 92
  • Amount of lines: 140
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; man, of, his, and, on, years, had, jolted, stone, in, to, it, your are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, jolted, of, the, but, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines years, it are repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Stone;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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