This is an analysis of the poem Black And White that begins with:
They fights their fights and they hunt their game,
As they did before the white man came,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111111 110010111 10010111 11010101 11010111 10010101 11001101 01001101 11110100 11110111 11110101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; they, of, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Black And White;
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- idea of the verse;
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