This is an analysis of the poem Sos (Save Our Sons) that begins with:
We Black men of England
Too proud to cry for shame,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbXcdeffe AgbbgdchhcXAdeedaghhg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,21,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010 110111 1101 1100 011101 1101010 011101 011 1011 0111101 111010 111101 111 111 110100 10101010 1011111 1101 111 010001 111010 011001 1110 01110 1011101 1111010 1010001 11101 1111 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; cry is repeated.
The author used the same word we 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 people is repeated).
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- summary of Sos (Save Our Sons);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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