This is an analysis of the poem Where Lieutenants Of Apartheid Train that begins with:
Home of the plastic smile.
And where lieutenants of apartheid train....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabbc bXbcdb dbXdaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100101 1101000111 001001110010 0101010101010100 10101100101010 1100001011000010 1110010100 001001010111 101010100 00111100101111 1101010010100 1011000010101 001100011001011 000100100110101 010010111001 100010011010 001011101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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; of, they, to are repeated.
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