Analysis of Man Had
Man had the ability to walk on articulately carved feet,
man had an uncanny knack of tackling problems.
man had large palms which could be curled into a fist,
man had sharp beads of visual apparatus distinguishing between good and evil.
man had lips which turned scarlet when he chewed green leaves of betel,
man had eardrums detecting the minutest of sound.
man had the capacity to perspire in the flaming Sun,
man had twin pair of nostrils which excreted snores at night.
man had a mass of shiny hair projecting from shaven scalp,
man had finger nails blended with several coats of white calcium.
man had bulging arm muscle raising cotton fabric of his shirt,
man had a bunch of well chiseled teeth biting through the hardest of sugarcane stick.
man had built palaces with silver granite and volumes of red brick,
man had bathed for centuries in water extracted from earths crust.
man had the prowess of memorizing long stanzas of numeric verse,
man had a body which had evolved from the primitive ape.
man had a voice that could be synthesized into melodious notes of music,
man had acquired occult powers by incessant worship of the divine Creator.
man had the infinite power of bringing stars to the earth,
man had ruled over all living and created for centuries since he was born.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100100111111 111010111010 111111110101 111111000100100011010 111111011111110 1110100111 110010010100101 111111011111 110111010101101 1110110110111100 1110110101010111 1101111011010101101 11110011010010111 1111100010010111 11010110011010101 110101101101001 1101111100101001110 1101001101010101001010 110100101101101 11110110001011001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 1,277 |
Words | 226 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 52 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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