This is an analysis of the poem Lynching that begins with:
Have you ever heard of lynching in the great United States?
'Tis an awful, awful story that the Negro man relates, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eefX cccc ccgg bbff fffX hhii gXfX bbdd cchh ffii bbhh aacc jjgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111010100010101 111010101010101 101011101010101 011010101110101 101010100010001 111110100010001 101110101010101 101100101010101 001010111010101 100010100010101 111010101110101 1001101110100101110 101010001010101 101011101110001 100010100011111 101010100010001 001110101010101 101000101010101 111010101010101 101000100110001 101110101010101 101010101010101 111010101011101 100010111010101 001110101010111 1010010100011111 1110101010011101 1010101011101010 101010101011111 001010101010101 101010100011101 101000101011111 1001011101011101 1110101010101010 011111101010001 10011101010101110 111010111010101 1011000101110101 011110100010101 101000101010101 1010001011101001 111110100010101 111110101010100 101110101010111 111010101110101 10110010000101001 001011101010101 101010100010101 101001101110101 101010101010111 101010101010001 101010100100101 101110111011001 101010101001001 100010100010101 111010100010101 1010000101010101 101000101011101 101010101110001 111010101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (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; of, to, and, they are repeated.
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