This is an analysis of the poem Alexander Crummell--Dead that begins with:
Back to the breast of thy mother,
Child of the earth!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abaccbcbddeee AdccXffdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010110 1001 100011110 1111 1001001001 1001 1110011 1011 1001011111 1011001011 1011 0011 11001 10010110 01 11110 11011010010010 11110 1111011001 1111001101 1111101101 111100 1
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 334
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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