This is an analysis of the poem An Echo From Africa that begins with:
Da ruction happen by Nicko's place
Las' week, in da deada da night.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcX aeaefgXg XbXXhihi dXXhdXde jdjdbdbX fafXahaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110101101 11011011 1101101111 1001111 0111101001 1101101 1101101111 1101111 101111111 11101 111101101 101101 110111111 1111101 110111101 11011011 1110111011111 01111101 1101101101 10111011 110111011 11101111 11101101011 1111101 1101111101 11101111 1110101101 1101101 1101111011 1101110 1101111011 11111011 1101111111 11111011 1110111111 111011111 1101111111 1111011 11111110011 1101101 1101110111 1101111 11011111011 111111101 11111001111 11101111 11101101111 10011011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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, smash, dey, an', heem are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', dey are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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