This is an analysis of the poem Jim Crow Cars that begins with:
If within the cruel Southland you have chanced to take a ride,
You the Jim Crow cars have noticed, how they crush a Negro's pride,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd bbee dddd ffgg hhaa eeee aaii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0010101111100101 101111101110101 111011101010101 101010101010101 101110100010001 101100001010101 001000111010101 101010100010111 101010111111111 001111100110011 001011100010011 101110101110101 101010101010101 101001101110011 101010101010001 101011100010111 001010100010101 111010101011101 101111101010101 101110101010101 001010101110001 101000100010101 001011100010101 101001110111101 101010111011101 101001111111101 001010101010101 111010101010101 001010101110101 101000101010101 101111101010101 101010101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, in, how, to are repeated.
The author used the same words 'tis, if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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