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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