This is an analysis of the poem From The Black Perspective that begins with:
Why don't you write more from the 'Black' perspective?
Or the African-American point of view....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaaabc dX X eX c dX c fXgX X XhecbhdX Xg cX cb XdhiejhkbcccX h hhbX jXihhhk XXXafh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,2,1,2,1,2,1,4,1,8,2,2,2,13,1,4,7,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111001010 101000100101 01001001 11100101 0101 11010101000100 11 01010111 1 1010101 0101011 1111 110001010 1101101 101 1100011 1101 11000111 000111111 11111 1100100 010001 01110111010 001000 010001 0100110001 101010011 0110011 101110 110 110110110010 0100110101011001 110 1110101 1 010110 11010111 110 1101111 11101 110011010011 111 11111111 11100111 1111101011 110101 111011 010 10 1111010 111100111011 111 1 1101 11101010 11011 01001011100 11110111101 0110 11110 00011 11 1 111100100001
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, yes, more, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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