This is an analysis of the poem Crispus Attucks that begins with:
WHERE shall we seek for a hero, and where shall we find a story?
Our laurels are wreathed for conquest, our songs for completed glory....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccddbb ccee ffgghhii XXjjccccii eebb ddiijj ddkkllffbb kkXehh bbeegX bbgXmm bbggeebbnn bbhhXe dXjjggbbii iieeeXddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,8,10,4,6,10,6,6,6,10,6,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111101011111010 11011011011101010 11100101001010001 0110111111110101 1111010101010101 0010101011111101 1100100111010101 1110010010111101 1101110101110101 1010110101010101 1010100101110111 11101010010101101 1010101001101001 1010101000100101 11001010011100111 1110111011101111 0100101010100101 0100100101110100 10011010111011011 1101111110101001 111111011100111 1101101110101001 110001011111101101 0111001010100111 0111001011110111 1101001011110101 0100101101100111 0010111000101001 0100100101110101 0101001010100101 0100101011100111 01001101001001101 1110111011100101 1111110011100101 1010101101111111 1010101011010101 1100101011101111 01001101010100111 1010110100111101 0100101001010111 0110111011100111 1110110100110111 1010110101111111 1110101011101011 1010100101100101 1101111101101101 1101011011111001 1010010101010101 1100101001100101 1101101101010101 1100101011001001 1010100101111001 111010010110101 1011101010100101 11110010011100100 1010101010100101 11001010010110101 1010110101111101 1111101010110101 0111001010101111 10101110001101011 0111011011011001 101011101111101 0100111011101010 1010110110010000 1010110101010001 10100110011111101 1010010001110100 1010010111001010 0101101101101010 1100101111010101 1101010010010001 0111101011101000 11010110101100111 1101101010100111 0100101010100001 0101101000100001 011100100111001 1010011101100101 1010010100101101 1100101000101001 10101101011010111 1111111011111101 1111111010101101 11001101010111000 10100100100011001 1110100111100111 0101101101001111 1111100101110101 1101001111101111 1111010001110100 0100111011110111 0111111000110101 00101001000100101 1010011110100101 1101111111010101 1010101011010101 0100101101111101 1011101010110101 1010111101110101 1010111101111101 1111100100101001 0101101010010101 1111001011101011 1110110111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 450
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 105
- Average number of symbols per line: 68 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, for, and, of, one, his, he, where, blood, to, first, or, when, by, that, there, have, him, this, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, the, where, when, by, there, that, for are repeated.
The author used the same word not at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Crispus Attucks;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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