This is an analysis of the poem You and your whole race that begins with:
You and your whole race.
Look down upon the town in which you live...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXBaXBccccdbeded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 1101010111 1001 110111 10110 1001 1101100011 11101001101 0111010001 1110110101 101101111 111011110101 01101100111 1110111101 11111 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 590
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines there is repeated).
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