This is an analysis of the poem The Man And The Echo that begins with:
Man
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbbbaaccbbbbaabbdd e d a ffgXbbhhdXiijjccbb eb a ggggkkffbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,18,1,1,1,18,2,1,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 0011101 1010111 1010001 1111101 11010001 1111111 1111111 1000101 11011101 11010101 0110111 1010101 01011111 1110101 1110111 1010111 11110011 1011111 10 1111 1 1001 0100010011 1100110101 0010101 1110111 11111101 11110101 1111101 10110111 110100100 11011111 11010111 11010111 01011101 11010101 11110101 1010111 11110001 10 0001 1 1101 11011101 11111111 1010001 11111101 01111101 11111111 1010111 010100101 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, that, we, or are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word night at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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