This is an analysis of the poem The Little Negro that begins with:
Ah! the poor little blackamoor, see there he goes,
And the blood gushes out from his half frozen toes,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcc bbdd eeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101001111 101101001101 1011111110101 1111010101101 11101011010111 10010110111 1100010101101 1111011010101 111110101111101 11010111110101 111100111110101 11110101110101 11010101100101 11110100111101 101100111100101 111010101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Little Negro;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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