This is an analysis of the poem Must Be Freed that begins with:
The ante-bellum Negro prayed,
For God to intercede,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaX baba XXXa cacX dada caca aaaa eaea fafX gaga babX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 110101 11010011 110101 01110101 011101 11010111 110101 110110100 0111100 11010101 110001 01010101 1011101 11000101 110101 100000101 10101 1110001 110101 01010101 011001 11010111 010101 01111101 011101 11010101 110101 01010001 010101 01010101 110001 11010101 011101 11011001 011101 01001100 010001 01110100 010101 01110101 011101 11111101 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, from are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word freed at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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