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

Day creeps down. The moon is creeping up.
The sun is a corbeil of flowers the moon Blanche...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcdeecf gecXdfheeha XXeddcX agedfdf bebiiiceXXfbdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,11,7,7,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 111010101 010011010011 10100111101 010011110001 001110010101 1101111010010 0100101010101 010010101001 0100010111 01001101011 0100100100111 101101010101 11111011011 01100101001 11110001101 1010011011101 1101101011001 01110111011 00100101000101 11011101101 100100101010 1010010111 01101100101 11101010111 11100010111 11010101101 01 101010111 00100010101 1110100100010 1010110111101 101001001111 10111110001 1101100101 1111111111 1111111101 111101110101 0101110100101 0011001001001 10111011101 10010101001 000100010111 101000101100001 101111110101 000101001011 010010000101 01010111011 11011100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 451
  • Average number of words per stanza: 87
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; of, like, in, dew, one, beats, ear, it, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, one are repeated.

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

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

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

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