This is an analysis of the poem Lift Every Voice And Sing that begins with:
Lift ev'ry voice and sing,
Till earth and heaven ring,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbbcddee fffggfffgggXbbcggcccffff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,24,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 111101 1001000100 110101 110101 1011110101 10110011011111 10110011001111 100101011110 1111110001 100111 100101 1001111111 100101 111101 1001111101 11110011011010 11110111010010 100101 111111 1011011101 101100 101101 1111111101 111111 110001 1101000111 11110010111111 11110010011011 100111 110101 1011 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 405
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; we, of, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sing, we, god, thou, lest, true are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us, thee are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ring connects the lines.
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- summary of Lift Every Voice And Sing;
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- history of its creation;
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