Analysis of The man by the lake
"Do you have a family?"
I asked him,
The man by the lake.
"I had a father,"
He answered, in his usual monotone.
"Alexander."
"Why do you call him by his first name?"
I asked him.
"He adopted me,"
He answered.
I did not ask anymore questions,
Not because he did not want to talk about it,
(he was still keeping up his emotionless persona,)
But because there was nothing left to say.
Scheme | aBx cxc xB ax x x x x |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110100 111 01101 11010 1100110010 010 111111111 111 10101 110 11110110 101111111011 11110111010 1011110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 388 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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The man by the lake describes his past.
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