This is an analysis of the poem Grassroots And By-Products Of The Ghetto that begins with:
Suited with blessings I have been,
To live amongst 'my' people....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCD EFCG AHAH ABCD EFCG AHAH Xigf jjgch caXiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010110 0101110 10100100011 11100010 1010110 10100001 101110101 1001001010110 11010110101 01000111011010101 1010010 1101100110100 10010110 0101110 10100100011 11100010 1010110 10100001 101110101 1001001010110 11010110101 01000111011010101 1010010 1101100110100 11010101 110110101001111 00100010101110010 0110100110111 1110101111 10111111 01111110101 111111001 11110 11110110 11001110101 111000101111 001100111 1110110111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines do is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase people connects the lines.
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