This is an analysis of the poem Poems On Man that begins with:

Man goes into the noisy crowd
to drown his own clamour of silence. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aX bXX Xccbba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11000101 010110010 1001011111100 1100010010 01101010101 101010001010101 101001101010101 0010111010101001 00100010 00100 01
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 11
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.

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

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  • summary of Poems On Man;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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