This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of Slavery that begins with:
O THOU great Wrong, that, through the slow-paced years,
Didst hold thy millions fettered, and didst wield... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXcdedeXX fggXhhdadadd fbbfbbXfdfii cbbcjjkfkfii cffckkbjbjff gkkgddffffkkXdffdccififaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,12,25,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110110 1111010111 01110100001 1101011101 110101 110111 0101010011 11110101010 1100110101 110101001010 11111111110 10010111000 0101000101 1101010101 1101010111 1110000100 110101 111101 1101001001 0111110101 01001010101 1001010011 0101010101 1011110111 01111110001 1111010101 1111010101 1111010001 111111 010001 1101111111 11110011111 1011010101 11100000101 11010100011 1001011101 1111110101 01010101011 1101011111 11111100101 1111011 0111001 0111000111 11101100111 11110101001 0111010001 1101110111 11010101001 1111011111 1100111011 1011100101 1101010111 110101 010101 11110100111 1011110101 1111011111 01001101001 0101001111 11110010111 11100011111 01010000101 01001011101 1101110101 001111 110101 1001010011 0100110111 00101011101 1101011101 1011010001 0011010111 1101001101 10110011001 1001010111 0101111101 011111 110111 0111101101 1101111111 1011000111 1011110101 1101010111 1101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 508
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, thy, didst, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thy, and, with, the are repeated.
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- summary of The Death Of Slavery;
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