This is an analysis of the poem Epistle Of Condolence From A Slave-Lord To A Cotton-Lord that begins with:
Alas ! my dear friend, what a state of affairs !
How unjustly we both are despoil'd of our rights !... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeae efef XbXb gaga ahbh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111101001 1010111100011 101011111011 111101101101 1100101100010 011110110010 111110011010 110011011010 01011001111 011111101101 111010011011 101111001101 101011011001 11001101111 1110101001 111001011001 111010011000 110011010011 1110111010110 11111001111 101001101111 101111001001 011001011011 111111011011 1001101110110 11101001001 1110111011011 01011001111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, we, which are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word which is repeated.
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