This is an analysis of the poem Give Us Chains We Can Believe In that begins with:
What has occurred at that vacant plantation?
It looks as if there had been a stampede....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdcX XX AAA eXXeb bfbgX AAA gX fhXeacccX cd hXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,2,3,5,5,3,2,9,2,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011110110 0110110001 10110101110 11001001011 11010010101 111 1111011011 100101001110 11111010 111010 101111010 1 1101 1011111011 111011010 101 11101 101000111010 1 1101101 110001000 11111010 111010 101111010 110111011101 1001101110111 1011010 11 110100 11110101 1111010110 0011110 10101101 111 00101001111 101 10101 1110 10100011 11110100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; we, chains, can, believe, in, and, that, he are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines in is repeated).
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