This is an analysis of the poem du bois in ghana that begins with:
at 93, you determined to pick up and go—
and stay gone. the job nkrumah called you to,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXb Xcdb eefg cedX Xgbe dhai dfjg gifk lcki bamf eehm alXjXlefi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101001111 1110110110 0011110101001000 010001001 1101110101 0100010011011 100110101 1001111 11111101001 101110010010 00100101000111 01000111101 0111110101 10111010010 110110011 11001001010 10101111100 11011001101 1101001100 11111010010 1001110 10001110 110111110101 01101011 111111111 01111011001 0010111111 101010101 1101100111 00011111 1001101010100 1011001111 0110001110110 011001100101 0010110111 000111111101 10010010110010 1101011 101011010 0111110101010 1011100110111 101010101010 10010101010 101011001010101 10101011 111011010 11111111100 110010010011 011011010 111101100 100110101 111100001
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, your, you, in, and are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase to connects the lines.
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