This is an analysis of the poem Prejudice that begins with:
How strangely blind is prejudice, the Negro's greatest foe!
It never fails to see the wrong but naught of good can know.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eefg hhee iibb jjdd iifg bbaa kkkkXeeii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010100010101 01010101110011 11011101010001 01010101100101 11010100110001 010101001010101 01010101010101 01010101110001 01010101010101 11010101010001 01000111110101 01010001111100 0101010110101 01010101010101 01010001110001 01010101010101 01010101011110 11010111010101 01010001110111 01010011010101 00010101010101 01010101010001 11001101010001 01010101010101 01010110110101 01010011010001 11001101010101 11011101110100 11010101010001 11010101110101 01000101110101 01100101110111 01010001110101 001110011010001 01010011010101 11010001110101 11110101010101 11010101011111 11010101010101 11000111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (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; to, it, makes are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, the are repeated.
The author used the same words how, it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Prejudice;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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