This is an analysis of the poem A Menace To Those Unconscious that begins with:
I've been Black for a while now.
So I am accustomed, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabXX XcXbXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011 111010 0101010010 101111110 011011 11100001001 110101101 10010100 111100 1111010 1101 01001110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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; to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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