This is an analysis of the poem Ethnogenesis that begins with:
Written During the Meeting of the First Southern Congress, at Montgomery,
February, 1861... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX a bcbcdbdbcceeecededdfdddfghhdg X bbddfdiidfjjkeekkdddjdjdgdg X dldlmmiiccddggddeeeefnnfddaadd X kggkooaajjcXcmmhhddoooo
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,29,1,27,1,30,1,23,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101001000110101010 10101 1 1101010101 1111010101 10010010001 01010101111 0100110101 11010100101 010101 1111110111 1101110111 111111 0111010101 1101111101 1100010111 11001011101 1101010001 1011101101 110101 0101010101 1101010001 10010011 01011101101 1101111101 010101 0101010101 0101110111 110111 000111 101110001 1101011101 1 1101010111 0111001 111111 1100101 1110010001 11010111001 1011110011 1111111101 1000110111 1111110111 0101010101 1101010101 0101010111 1001111101 1100111 11110101 11010010101 1111111101 1101111111 01010101 111101100100 101111 010101 1101010111 110111 1011010111 010111 1 11110101 111111 1101010001 110111 11111101 11110101 11010101 1100110101 111101001 0111010101 10011100101 1111010001 01010100101 1101110111 1101010101 1101010001 0100110010 11010101010 1101010101 0101010101 11010010001 1101110111 1011010101 111111 0101010101 101101 11110101 1111010101 010111 010001 1 1111011101 1110010111 1101110101 0100111 110101 1101010100 1111110101 11110111110 1101010111 1011000101 10110001 0111010 11011101001 0101010111 111111 01001011101 11110101 01110101001 0111111101 11011000101 0101111101 1011010101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 488
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 115
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and, in, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Ethnogenesis;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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