This is an analysis of the poem Further Afric Echoes that begins with:
By gar! I tell-a you, t'ings don't stop
Since da war he come wit' a rush,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd cecXcfcf aXXacgcX XeXehXhX iXiijdjX jdjdgXgX
- 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: 111101111 11111101 1101111111 1101111 110111111 11101011 1110111101 1101101 1111111011 1100111 111110101 1101111 11101110111 111011111 11101111111 11101011 1101111011 11101111 11101101011 011011001 1111110111 111101010 1111010011 1101111 11110001101 1101111 11101111101 11011101 11111101111 11101100 1011111011 1101011 111110111 1111111 111011111101 0101101 11111111101 11110111 1101111101 1101101 111111111 011001011 11101111011 00101111 10111101011 10111110 1101101101 11111001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, an', dey, he, you, get, wile, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is 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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