This is an analysis of the poem I See The Four-Fold Man that begins with:
I see the Four-fold Man, The Humanity in deadly sleep
And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and its cruel Shadow. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbccXbX aXXbXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 110111001000101 10101010010101011 110101110010111 01110110011111 111011000011101 110110101011101 11010101001001110 1001111010110000 1111001110100010 11010101111010 110101010101 010111010010101 010111101101100 1010101101110101 101101001010011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 460
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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