This is an analysis of the poem Singers Of The Blues that begins with:
These times have taken leaps.
With days fading into months gone....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABBACD XeeXaEFDEGH ABBACD EFDEGHXfef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,11,6,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 01100011 1101111 011010101 10010010101 110111001 110110100010 1101111001 1101111001 11111010 0011111 11 110001 10111101 1101 1101 1101 111101 01100011 1101111 011010101 10010010101 110111001 11 110001 10111101 1101 1101 1101 100110010 010111000111 0110110101 110101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 33
- 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; to, after are repeated.
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- summary of Singers Of The Blues;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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