This is an analysis of the poem Accountability that begins with:
FOLKS ain't got no right to censuah othah folks about dey habits;
Him dat giv' de squir'ls de bushtails made de bobtails fu' de rabbits....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXX ddee ffbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101010101110 1110101010101010 1110111010101010 1110111110101010 101010101110101 111111011111101 1101111111101110 110010101111110 111100101110111 111011101010001 1110111011110101 111010101110101 1110101010111010 10101010111001010 1111111011101010 1011101011111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 66 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, him, dat, we, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words him, we are repeated.
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- summary of Accountability;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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