This is an analysis of the poem The Slaves Of Martinique that begins with:
BEAMS of noon, like burning lances, through the tree-tops flash and glisten,
As she stands before her lover, with raised face to look and listen.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaeeaaffddgghhXiaaeedddXffjjkkddaaggccaXiiaajjaaXfjjjjgXeeggiikk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 72,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101010111110 1110101001101110 111010100010101 101010111010101 101110100010111 101010110010101 1010100100010001 10110100011101 101100111010101 1010100110010111 101110101010111 101110101010101 101011101010111 10011100101110101 111010111011101 101110101110101 1011100101100101 101010101101101 101011001010111 101110101010001 101010111010101 101011101010001 1011101010101110 101010101010101 101101001110111 011110101010100 1111111110100011 101010101010111 001010101010101 011010100010101 1110101000101001 1100011010011100 101110101011101 001110111010111 101010101010101 101110101010101 001001100010101 101010101010101 101010111110111 101011101010001 11101110100101110 1010001111101010 1111111010100111 101010101010101 111010101110101 100010100111101 111011101011101 1011100101010101 10110101011101 111010101110101 111010101010101 101010101010111 111011101011101 111111101010101 111011001010111 111110101011111 11101001111111010 101110101011001 111110101011101 101010111010111 111011101010101 101011101011101 111110111111101 111110101011101 101000101010101 101010101110001 111010111010101 10011100101010101 1011101110010111 101100101010101 101011101110111 1010010101010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4681
- Average number of words per stanza: 858
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, of, and, in, her, have, for, my, would, he are repeated.
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