This is an analysis of the poem The Negro Schools that begins with:

Please be silent now, my country, while I fill the speaker's place;
While I point out some abuses that we constantly embrace,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd bbbX eeff ddbb ddgg hhii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011101110101 111110101110001 100110100011111 101011100010101 1010011110101010 0010111001111010 111010111110101 111000101110001 101010101010111 101100100110101 101110101111101 101010101110110 101110101011111 101010100011001 101011100010100 101010100010011 101010101001001 111010100011101 101110101011001 101000101010111 101100101011101 111000111010001 111010101010101 101110101100001 001010101110101 111010101110101 001011101111001 101010110011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • 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; i, they, to, schools, for are repeated.

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