This is an analysis of the poem Man And The Echo that begins with:
Man. In a cleft that's christened Alt
Under broken stone I halt... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccaaaabbaadd d eefXaaggdXhhiiccaa a ffffjjeeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,1,18,1,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101 1010111 1010001 1111101 11010001 1111111 1111111 1000101 11011101 11010101 0110111 1010101 01011111 1110101 1110111 1010111 11110011 1011111 101111 11001 0100010011 1100110101 0010101 1110111 11111101 11110101 1111101 10110111 110100100 11011111 11010111 11010111 01011101 11010101 11110101 1010111 11110001 100001 11101 11011101 11111111 1010001 11111101 01111101 11111111 1010111 010100101 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, night, but are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines die, night are repeated).
The poet repeated the same words die, night at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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