This is an analysis of the poem The Man Upright that begins with:
I once spent an evening in a village
Where the people are all taken up with tillage,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbccddbXeeffggcceehhiihhjjjhhcchhff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111100010 101011101010 111100011 01011101 110100111 110110011 10011001 11001011001 100101101 1100111101 10101011110 11110010010 11011010110 11111010 1001011101 10100110101 10101101001 0110111101 001101101011 1111101101 101011101010 010110011010 111111101 1110101111 10010101 1101001001 11101011001 1010101001 0010100111 0101001101 1110111101 1111001011 1101001001 0111010110 11001101110 111010001 110010101 110101001 0111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1641
- Average number of words per stanza: 322
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, and, to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
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- summary of The Man Upright;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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