This is an analysis of the poem Kingdom Coming that begins with:
Say, darkeys, hab you seen de massa,
Wid de muffstash on his face,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbcb XXcX XdedXdXd XceccfXf ggegcbeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111010 1010101 110111110 1110101 110111010 1010101 1101111010 1111101 01011111 010111 010101010 1010100 111111110 1111101 01111101010 1011111 111111110 1111101 111111110 1011101 010111010 0010101 111101010 1010111 111100010 1010111 111101000 1010101 010011110 1111101 11110010010 1011001 010101010 1010101 110110110110 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; de, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word de is repeated.
The author used the same word de at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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