This is an analysis of the poem Lion of South Africa that begins with:
Slow pass'd the sultry days in Afric wilds,
Slow wan'd the moonlit nights, slow flash'd the dawns,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdeafb gabhicbieebfebaXd dhbiijj biaibbXbbe ieaakakbedahabcd begaeba XecachbacgiaXcaae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,17,7,10,16,7,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 1101111101 110101100101 11010101 11010001001 0101010101 1101100101 1011010101 0101010001 1101010001 0101110111 1101011101 1101011101 1101011101 0111011101 1101010101 1101010101 1011010101 0101010111 1101011101 0100010101 1101010101 0101111101 1001001101 0101010101 1001011101 0101110101 11011010101 010011110111 1111110101 111110001 1101010101 0101011101 101111011 1101010101 11010101001 0101110101 11010111101 11010111101 1101111111 1101010101 1101110101 1100010101 001111100001 0111100101 11001011101 1100110101 1111011101 1111001101 100001110101 0111010101 1101010101 1101011111 0111000101 0101010101 11001010001 1011011101 1101110011 11001011101 01010101101 0101010111 1111110111 0111010101 1101111101 0101110111 0111011101 1101001111 1101110111 101001110101 10001000111 1101010101 01110100101 0101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1001111111 110101010101 11011100111 11110101010 1011011101 1111010101 1001000101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 527
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 83
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; slow, of, his, and, to, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words slow, and, the are repeated.
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