This is an analysis of the poem What Stephen Lawrence Has Taught Us that begins with:
We know who the killers are,
We have watched them strut before us...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABXBcbXX cXdbdee BfXghiabb BbjbXbjebdXgd XdkkcihdXbiddfd igebXebdA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,9,13,15,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 11101011 11111000 11101011 10001100 1010011 11001 010101 00111010 110111 11110 111010111 110111 11111010100 0111010100 0101010 11101110 1100101001 010101110 10010100101 1010 11010101 1111010011 101111 0101010 111 111010010010 01100110010011101 011111 0101010101 1000011000000110 11010010100 110101001101010 110100101 1001010 111011101 0110 11110011101 11110011000110100 1110011111 1110011111 011 10111101 1111111011011 1111010110 1110 010101010 11111100101 1110110 110110 1111010 111111 11010 11010001 1100100 101101 111010110 0010110100 01111100 01 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 327
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; we, of, talking, about, friends are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, and, the, as are repeated.
The author used the same word the 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 now, places are repeated).
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