This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet To Negro Soldiers that begins with:
They shall go down unto Life's Borderland,
Walk unafraid within that Living Hell, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabbaabccccXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111101100 1101011101 1101010111 1101101001 010101111 0111011111 11101100111 0101011101 10001001001 0100110101 1111100101 1110111101 01001011100 1101110100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 638
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.
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