This is an analysis of the poem The Slave Trade, A Poem that begins with:
If heaven has into being deign'd to call
Thy light, O Liberty! to shine on all;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXXdeeffddggdddXffaahhiiXjggffcchhkkccddhhddllhhmmddddeeddhhffaaccnnddaaddfffXddcXkkddooffccXhppccccbbqqddeeffaannhhffaannccbbffhhrrffbbffaacXeeaannddaa aahhooffhhhhffccaarjccddccddbbrrqqrrXdffsshhffffffddbXb fXnnddbbffffddnneehhrrXjffhhccffhhaaccnncc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 156,55,84,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01010010101 1111000111 11010011111 0101010101 1101010101 1101010010 1100110110 11010100101 1101111101 1110010111 1101100001 1111010101 1011011101 1111010101 1001110111 11110101101 1101011101 11110100101 1101010101 0101110101 1101010001 1101010111 1001011101 0101011101 1101010101 1111011101 1101010101 0111010111 0111010011 11010100110 10001110001 1101011111 1101110101 110101010101 10011110101 1001010101 1101010101 11110110101 1101010101 1101011101 01010101010 111101100110 1101011101 1011010001 1101010001 1101111011 0111010101 1111110111 1101111101 1101010111 1111010101 1101010101 1101011101 1101010101 11010011101 1101110001 10111010101 1111010101 10100011101 0101000101 1001010011 0100010101 11101010001 10010010001 1101010101 0101010111 1111011101 1101011101 11110101010 111111010010 1011000101 011010101001 11010010101 0011000101 1111010101 1101000101 0101010010 0101010001 11111111001 01010000101 0101011101 010101110 1111011101 11111001001 1111110101 1101010101 1111110101 10110101001 11011111001 1101010101 0111010001 10101001101 110011100101 1011110101 10001011111 10010100101 1111110101 0101010101 10101010101 0101010001 1101011011 0101010101 01010010101 0111000101 1011011101 0101010101 1101110101 1011010101 0101010101 1011110111 11001110101 0101011001 1101011101 1111111101 1101010101 0111010101 0101010011 010010100101 0111010101 0101011101 1101110101 1101001101 110001011111 100101110101 110100101001 1111011101 1101011101 0101010101 11011111001 1011111101 11110011001 010100101001 1110110101 1101000101 010011100101 0101010111 1111010011 1101010001 1101001101 1111111101 01010110101 10101000101 0101010101 1001011101 0111000101 1101010100 1101010001 1101010101 0101110101 1111011111 11110100101 01001010101 1101011101 1101010101 11110101001 11001010101 1111110111 1111010111 011001000101 011000101 1110010001 1101010101 1011110101 1111010101 10011110101 1111010101 0101110101 1101111101 11001010101 1101011101 1011110001 1111011101 1011010101 1011010101 0011011101 11010111010 1111010101 1100111101 1011010101 1111010111 1101110101 1101010101 1011000101 1111010101 0111011101 1101011101 1011010101 1111010111 11110101001 0101011111 01010010101 1111011011 011111001100 0101110101 1011011101 0101010111 0111010101 1101011101 1111010101 101100101001 0111011101 01011100111 1111111101 1111010101 110100100101 1001110001 1111011111 11010110001 11000010101 110111110 1 1111010101 11010111000 1011011101 11101010111 10010010011 0101010101 1101011101 11000110011 1001110101 1011010101 10101010101 1101011001 0101010101 1101010101 0111010101 1001000101 1101010101 11010100100 1101111101 01110101001 1110010101 1101010111 1001100101 100111101010 1101111101 1101110101 11011111001 0101100101 0101001101 11100010101 1001010101 1111011111 0101111101 11001010111 11110111001 1101011111 1111001101 0101110111 110010110001 01110010101 1101010101 1111010101 01010110101 0100111001 10010100101 1101011101 1101010111 1101010101 1101010101 0111110101 1111111101 0111110111 1101010001 0101010101 1101110101 110101010101 01010101001 11001010101 1101000101 01001010101 01000101001 0101011101 0101010101 01011011001 0101000101 1101011101 10110101001 0101010111 0101010101 1101010101 1101010001 1001010001 1101010111 1100110101 1011010101 1101010101 0101110110 0101110101 0101010101 10011100011 0101010101 1111010101 01001111111 11110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 6511
- Average number of words per stanza: 1095
- Amount of lines: 296
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, thy, in, of, and, we, what, their, as, where, for, or, who, had, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, to, for, a, no, in, tho', as, the are repeated.
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