This is an analysis of the poem Is My Mother Really Black that begins with:
Is my black Mother Syama really black?
People say Kali is black,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabacdceX edc bXXXXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,3,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010101 1011001 1111001 011 1111101 0111001 0110111 110100 1111110 1010 110 1011 01001 110000 1011 110 0100100010100101100101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; black is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sometimes, then are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines black is repeated).
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