This is an analysis of the poem A Mediocre Man that begins with:
I'm just a mediocre man
Of no high-brow pretence;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabcdcd Xbbbaaaa dedefafa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 011110 01000111 011101 11011101 110111 11110101 010001 11110100 010101 11110111 110101 11111101 111101 11010101 110101 01110101 111100 10110101 111101 11110101 110101 11011111 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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