This is an analysis of the poem Bible Defense Of Slavery that begins with:
Take sackcloth of the darkest dye,
And shroud the pulpits round! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded afXf baXaXdddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000101 110101 10011101 110101 11010111 1100101 11110111 111101 110101001 0100111 01110101 0110001 010011110 010111 10010100 010101 101011101 110101 010110100 011101 11111101 111111 010100101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The author used the same word let at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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