This is an analysis of the poem Immorality that begins with:
Have you heard, my friend, the slander that the Negro has to face?
Immorality, the grossest, has been charged up to his race.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb bbcc ddee ffgX hhii jjgg hhff kkhh ggkk bbkk ggee hhaaXffkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111110101010101 101000101011001 101001101110101 001000111010101 101011101011101 110000101010101 111011101010111 001010100011101 101010100010101 011000100010101 111010101110101 001010100010011 101010101010101 101000101010101 110010101011101 1010101010111100 001110111010101 111010100011111 101110101010101 011000100010011 101010101110101 101110100010101 111010101010101 101010101010101 111011000111001 100110111110101 101110100010101 011110100010101 101010100110111 101010100110001 101011111010101 1011001010010011 111010101010101 111010101110101 101001100110101 101000101010101 101011011010101 1110111001010101 101000101110101 101000101110101 111010101010111 001000101011001 001110101010111 101010101110001 101110100010111 101010101010100 111011101010111 111000100010101 101110101110101 111111101011101 101010100010101 101010101010011
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of are repeated.
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- summary of Immorality;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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