This is an analysis of the poem The Southern Scourge that begins with:
The yellow fever was raging,
Down in the sunny south;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdaefe ghdfifih hhdfhcgi cjhjkefe gldlaege ffaiejXj gdkbaeXe Xfaifigi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010110 100101 10100010 110111001 0101110 0010101 01110101 110101 11011100 0100101 11111100 100111 11011100 1101101 01011101 1111111 11000100 110011 11000101 111101 01110110 111101 11010100 100101 10101100 1011001 0110110 011101 110010101 110011 11110101 110101 101001010 010101 110000100 110011 0101110 0110101 1101110 011001 01001010 1010111 0101000010 010101 11011101 111111 01100101 0101001 01010100 110101 01011000 0100101 11011100 111101 10010111 0100101 0101010 110111 0101110 1111101 101001010 1010101 111010100 00100011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; have, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words have, where, they are repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Southern Scourge;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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