This is an analysis of the poem The Man To Follow that begins with:
Apart from the crowd with its banter and mirth,
Sitting loose on his mare with an eye to the whins, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabcCbdedeCCefgfgCCghihicCijkjkcCk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 35,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001001011 101101011001 111001111001 111101101101 1001010 010010 00101011001 101001001101 101001001101 111011011001 111011001101 1011010 010010 01101011011 111001011101 111001001001 101001101001 101111011011 1011010 010010 11011011011 101101010011 101001001001 11001011001 101011011001 011010 010010 01101101011 011001111011 111101111101 011101101101 01101011011 1011010 010010 01101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1533
- Average number of words per stanza: 294
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; has, he, his, to, follow, and, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, 'mid, when are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines follow is repeated).
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- summary of The Man To Follow;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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