This is an analysis of the poem We Have And Could Have Given that begins with:
By the time racist ways have been erased,
And those who held onto them......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXaXXXXaXXbbabA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011001 1111100 1011 1110001011 10101100 101 1100 1110 0010011 110111 1111110 010101000 11100100 11101001 101110100 1011011001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 481
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; have, them are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
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