This is an analysis of the poem Pity Of It, The that begins with:
I. In South Africa
Over the lonesome African plain ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X AA bccXccbcbcbcccc dd AA e dD afecfebeacbfcef ggXdD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,15,2,2,1,2,15,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101100 100101001 011111001 0101011011 10101101 0100100101 1 000101 1101 1101101001 110101101 110101011 1011011 110001 01001 01 010110101 1 110111111 10010101 100101001 011111001 100101 10011101 1111101101 110101011 1111001001 101101 1 111001 1001 100101011 100110101 111101 1111011 01001 1001 11 11001111 1 011100100 101110101 10011101 1111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
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