This is an analysis of the poem The Broken Men that begins with:
For things we never mention,
For Art misunderstood --... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd cXceefXX aghgXiii ejhjegeg gekeXebX kfhfaaXa cdXdXbeb beheelcl bbcbXgag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 111001 1100010 101100 01010010 011111 0101010 111101 1111010 111101 1101110 110111 0111010 1111101 0111110 01110 0101010 111111 1111011 010111 1101010 110101 1111010 010011 1101010 110101 1101010 110101 1111010 111101 1101110 0010101 1111110 010101 1101010 0010011 0101010 010101 1111011 0010100 1101010 010101 0101101 10111001 1101010 111011 1101110 1010110 1111110 011101 1111010 10100101 1110010 110111 11111110 111101 1111010 111101 1110010 1110101 10111010 1011111 1111010 1110111 1111010 011111 0101010 111101 1101010 110101 1101110 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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, and, our, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, from, we, men, they, that, the, to, our are repeated.
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