This is an analysis of the poem Negro Spirituals that begins with:
IN DAT GREAT GITTIN’-UP MORNIN’
I ’M a gwine to tell you bout de comin’ ob de Saviour,—...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XAXbXccdeXA abfeeghbbI aFXafI fFbchXI bXhXXbbXebXA a gaeAbXXA a XaHHaXea ejI ejI f XEffE kEi e gLllL ekbkllliXgieGidG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,11,10,6,7,12,1,8,1,8,3,3,1,5,3,1,5,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110110 110101110101010 111111 110101010 11110010 1101110110 101101110 1101110 110111 1011010 01110110 111111 0110100 11101010 1101010 110011 1111011 1010101 111010 011110 1110110 011101101100 1110100 1111110 1011110 1101110 1101010 011101101100 1001110 1111110 11101010 101010 11111010 1011010 011101101100 11101110 1101010 101010 1010010 10110 101010 111110 110100 0101010 111110 01110110 111111 10101 11111101 1010111 1110111 1010101 1101010 1101010 11010 1010101 1101 1101010101 1111101 110 110 1101 110101 111010101 1011101 101010101 111101 1101100 11111101 010111 1101100 111100 1001100111 11101101 1111100 111100 11101101 100110001111 11101101 1111001100 1100011 101100101 00101101 00101 00101 00101101 1100011 111001 1100110 110011 1101 1101 1101101 001011100 10110010101 1011100 1101111101 1110010101 111100 11111011101 1110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 101
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, o, de, see, fare, well, i, oh, what, mournin, roll, jordan, chariot, swing, low, in, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words place, see, oh, roll, o, in, my are repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines jordan, chariot are repeated).
The poet repeated the same words etc, fall, roll at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase roll connects the lines.
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