This is an analysis of the poem Everything Is Different In Africa that begins with:
Everything is different in Africa.
Strange stars by night look down,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXb AcXc Acdc XeXe ffdf Xbbb Xbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101000100 111111 11001010 10101101 10101000100 100101 11011110 1101001 10101000100 1111101 11011010 1110101 11101110 1111111 101001000 111111 111001110 0011101 110100110 0011101 11110010 110101 101000110 1010101 10110100 101101 10010100 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, like are repeated.
The author used the same word everything at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- idea of the verse;
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