This is an analysis of the poem The Man With The Blue Guitar that begins with:
The man bent over his guitar,
A shearsman of sorts. The day was green....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab aX aX cd aX Xeb fb bb ba ea Xbc ec ag gg gd Xaa hh hh ia aa fje cb ka aj ld la faa ll la Xa fb ga aa Xlf bh lb mg ee ae ia Xff cc dd ea hm aa Xga cc de dn op do lib dd ed qa ae cd jj eX XXd jX bb ee eq eb Xcd lp ig lc ic ib aa XbX ec df ih ne hd ee XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,3,2,2,2,2,3,2,2,2,2,3,2,2,2,2,3,2,2,2,2,2,3,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,2,2,2,2,2,3,2,2,2,2,2,3,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,2,2,2,2,2,3,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,2,2,2,2,2,3,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110001 010010111 11110101 111111110 01011111 11010110 11111111 01011101 01010101 010101110 1 11010111 11110111 11010111 11011101 11111111 11111101 001011101 001111111 1000101 001110101 1 11011101 01010001 01010101 11010101 01010101 01110111 01010111 01010101 01000101 10010001 1 11111111 010110101 01010111 11110001 11110111 11110111 0101001001 1010010101 11111111 01000101 1 1110100100100 00101000101 001001010101 11111011 100101101 11111101 01110111 11111100 010101101 01010101 0101001111 10001000101 1 01011111 110110101 010011001 11010101 0111111001 111010101 110101001 010010101 101010001 010011101 010010101 01010101 010101111 00100100001 1 00011111 011100001 111101001 00010110 01110111 1010010101 0100101011 1111100111 110011100 0010001000 010101111 100100101 01110100 011110101 1 01010101 01010101 01010111 0110001 101010011 100010101 10010101 11010001 11110101 01010001 11010101 11011101 1 101001011 001010101 001011100 111100111 01010011 0100011001 01010111 10010101 001010101 010100101 100010101 01000101 1 11010101 11010101 11000101 001010011 101000101 001011101 11011101 01000101 101010101 10010101 111110101 011110101 10010100 11010100 10011011 01110111 1 0010001001 0100010001 1110010100 111010101 10101101 0110010101 11111001 111101101 1010110101 0110100101 0011011111 1010010001 1 01100101001 00101001001 010110101 0100101001 0101001001 0010001001 10000101 001011101 01011110 00101011 101101101 010110001 11110111 01001001111 1 00110101 000100110 10010101 11010111 010101100 1101001001 011011101 01010101 11000110 110100101 11010110 01010101 1100001 110010101 100001010 10000100 1 11110101 0010101001 10011101 010010101 011010111 0010101001 101010101 010101011 11011001 0001000101 01110011 00010001 10010101 010000101 010010011 010001111 1 1010101010 110111001 100011001 11110101 111101111 10001001 1000100100 101011011 01110111 101011001 11111110 01010101 1 110101100 001011101 10010111 10010111 010100011 10010101 100100101 00110100 11111111 11011101 01011101 0010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 101
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 71
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 217
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, it, and, all, their, manner, of, final, shares, his, voice, that, nothing, you, time, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, to, and, of, the, is, oxidia, nothing, here are repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines man, place, good, misery, moon are repeated).
The poet repeated the same words ', man, guitar at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase are connects the lines.
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