This is an analysis of the poem Africa that begins with:
A thousand years of darkness in her face,
She turns at last from out the centurys' blight ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdcdbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0100010001 11110101001 0101111001 0101010111 0101100101 11010100101 1110010111 11011101001 1101011101 1111010101 1101010101 0101110101 1001111101 0111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 316
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; and is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Africa;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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