This is an analysis of the poem A Beauty That Has Ceased To Flourish that begins with:
I am Black...
AND patriotic....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABXCDE bfbcb gbeghbhhdebh ggXhb AABXCDE ccXfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,12,5,7,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 11010 1110 001000 010111001 101000010 1101101 101111100101 111101010 1101100111001 11110101 11110111 1001000100 110101 1100110101 11110010 0111011 01101 1 01 11110010100 110110010010 1111010 1111101001 10111011 11011001 111011010100 111100 1101000100 111 11010 1110 001000 010111001 101000010 1101101 100101 010001 010111010 101000100 010100111000
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; i, to are repeated.
The author used the same word i've at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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