This is an analysis of the poem The Chant Of The Cross-Bearing Child that begins with:
I bear dis cross dis many a mile.
O de cross-bearin' chile--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XAA bbAA cccAA dddXAA eeXXXAA ccccccAA dddddddaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111001 1011010 011010 111111001 1011110111 1011010 011010 11110111 1110110011 111111111 1011010 011010 1111111110 10101111111 1111111111 011100111 1011010 011010 111111111 111110111 11111111 1111011111 11011010001 1011010 011010 111111101 1011110111 111011101011 1110110111 11110110111 1011110111 1011010 011010 110111101 111111111 1110110101 11100111111 1011110111 1011111101 11111111 1011010 111010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; cross, dis, de, you, i, an' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words says, o, i, an' are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines chile is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word chile at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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