This is an analysis of the poem Trying To Find Shelter that begins with:
Just a few short years ago,
Some folks were subjects of racial kidding....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdebc aaeaefgfX eXacah febe XhbcXid giXecec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,6,4,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011001 1100101010 11101 11111111110 01110110011 0101101 111001010 010101011 0110111101 1010101110101 0100110 11011101 1110100100001 1110110 10101110 10110 001111000100 1101010011101 100100 1110011101 1000100001 110110111 111011000101 010111100110 1111110101 1100111101 010100101 1100101011 111010101011 11110101 010111 101010100 110001 101010011001 10111001011 001011110100 1111010111 01111101101 111011010101 100111100 101000100001101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of Trying To Find Shelter;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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