This is an analysis of the poem African Interlude that begins with:
I t'inkin' da war now go for stop
Between Black Sammo, da slush,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXc XdcdaXaX XbbXdeXe dfXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110111111 0111011 1101101111 1101101 11100111011 1111101 1101111011 01101101 1110011111 11100111 10101111101 11011001 01100111011 1110101 1101101101 01101111 1111111110 111110110 1100111011 111101011 1101101111 10111011 1101101111 1111011 1101111101 11011011 1101101101 1100111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; da, he, for are repeated.
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