This is an analysis of the poem Of Haitian Blood that begins with:
Those displaced and in heartache...
Of Haitian blood....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXc dcecXXX XeXdffX gbDDDg fff Xae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,7,6,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011 0101 100010 1011010 110111 01011110101 100100100 1100011101 101110 111101 111100100 0100101 1111 11001000 111 001011 11110000101010 01010010010 01100010101 01110110101 11010110100 111 111 111 1101 1101 11110010 0110110101 1000 0111010110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, i, love, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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