This is an analysis of the poem Young Afrikans that begins with:
of the furious
Who take Today and jerk it out of joint ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bc XXdX efggg ahhefX bdaX bcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,4,5,6,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00100 1101110101 1111010101 10011100 10 11010 1101 0111010 11100110 10111101 1011111 1011110111 111101010 010101010 01000001010 1101 10110 1010101 1001010101 010010 10110011 010111 1101 01010101001 1101011100 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; where, knowing, must, be, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words knowing, must, our are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines are, mindful are repeated).
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