This is an analysis of the poem Chrismus On The Plantation that begins with:
It was Chrismus Eve, I mind hit fu' a mighty gloomy day--
Bofe de weathah an' de people--not a one of us was gay;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX bXXX aaaX aacc XXaa XXdd XXXX XXbX aXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011011111010101 101010101010111 111111101011101110 1010110101010101 1110111010111111 1101011101110111 111010101111111 111011101011101 1111101100111011 101011101011111 11101110111111111 101110101110101 10101011011101 111010101001101 111110101111101 111010101011101 1110110101111101 1111111011111111 111110110111111 111011111111111 1010111101011101 1111101011011110 1111011101110101 111110101010101 111111101100111 111101011011101 10101010111101101 11111111111101110 11011101010101 11111101011111 11111101110111 111111100111101 11111110111101 11110111111111 11111101011101 11001111110100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (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, he, i, an', you, 's, to, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, an' are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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