This is an analysis of the poem Songs For A Colored Singer that begins with:
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A washing hangs upon the line, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbaaccdd XeXXF eeddeegg bhhXF X GhhhgddfX GXXgg gaiagjjdd GkkgG X iEGHG ilclc ibbab iadjd iEGHG X hhhh hhhh cccc eeee hhhh gggg dddd mmmm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,5,8,5,1,9,5,9,5,1,5,5,5,5,5,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 01010101 1011 10011111 0101 0101010101100 11010100 11010101 11011 11111111110 1011101 011101110 1101010110 0111011101 11111111 110101 11111101011 01010101 110111 1111101001 1101110101 10101 0110001 10011111 01010101 010010100110 0111011101 1 01110101 1101 11100101 11010101 0100101 11111101 01011101 11000111 01010000101 01110101 111100100 111101010 011010111 101110101 11111111 101011 0101110101 10010111 01010101 11011111 11111111 010011101 11110100 01110101 11101101 10011101 10100101 01110101 1 101 1011 1011 11011111 1001 101 1101 1101 011001110101 0101 101 1111 1101 1010101 1101 101 0111 1111 1110011 1100 101 1011 1011 11011111 1001 1 1110001 01001 1111101 1010001 0011001 111 1011010 1010101 1110101 1111 1001111 1010111 1010101 1101 1010101 1010101 1010111 111 1010111 1010101 1010111 0101 111001011 01010101 11100001 101 0111101 1110001 1110001 0101 1010101 1110001
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 115
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; got, we, i, i'm, and, dew, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words let, hear are repeated.
The author used the same words i, the, lullaby at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines leaves, tears, fall, seeds, weeds, root, face, dream are repeated).
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