This is an analysis of the poem The Idea Of Ancestry that begins with:
Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures: 47 black
faces: my father, mother, grandmothers (1 dead), grand-...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeXff XXcbf XadXXceX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001011111011 1011010110111 10111010101 101111011001 0101111011101 1111110111 1110110011101 11101101111111 1111110100010110 1110110111100010 111001101001111 1111001111 010001011111 1101111110110110 1110010101111111 111011100111 101001001011011000 01101101001010101 1110100100100011 1110011101001 1001011000100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 389
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, i, know, me, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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