This is an analysis of the poem Night Funeral In Harlem that begins with:
Night funeral
In Harlem:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AB cd eeXe AB cd bdXd Ab cX fede AB ghhhXhXhcgiXidfhdhXAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,4,2,2,4,2,2,4,2,21,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100 010 1011 0111 01011011 001010101 1110101 10101 1100 010 1101 11010 0101 01111 11101 11111 1100 010 111 11001 1101 11101 1110 011101 1100 010 101110 1011101 1010111 101101 11100 101111 11110101 111111 011 1010 11101 1111110 11111 00111010 011110101 0111111 111 1001 1100 010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 85
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to are repeated.
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