This is an analysis of the poem Writ On The Steps Of Puerto Rican Harlem that begins with:
There’s a truth limits man
A truth prevents his going any farther ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabcXdd aaeaXbfcgacgXed eheXaXhhff cffhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,15,10,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001101 01010101010 01010 011010 100010001 0110101 010111011 101 10111 1110 11111010 1011100100 111111010 0111010 10101 100111 110110100 11100011 101010 110101 0110101 0101011 1100000110 01 1111001101000 110101101010100 11100101101 111010 0111010100101 11110100 1011010100 1111100 111 1101 111011 11101 1011 100100 1110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; i, d, able, hard are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i 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 changing, truth, meaning are repeated).
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