This is an analysis of the poem The Well Dressed Man With A Beard that begins with:
After the final no there comes a yes
And on that yes the future world depends....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdccXeeXXXbdaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001011101 1111010101 1101100011 0001010101 11001010011 1101111110 1101010111 10100011101 00111010111 11010010010 0111100011 1110010001 10010100101 1001010101 01101010111 0100010101 011001010110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 725
- Average number of words per stanza: 134
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; yes, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines speech is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase one connects the lines.
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