This is an analysis of the poem Why Negroes Don'T Unite that begins with:
Why of all the many races in the country where we live,
Do we find so little union as the Negro race can give?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cccc ccdd eeee ffcc gghh ccii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101010100010111 111110101010111 001011101010101 111010101110101 101010101010101 111010101011101 101010100010111 101010101010001 101010101010101 101011001110101 101110111110111 101100101010111 101000100010101 101111101010111 101110100010001 101010101010101 101111101010101 101000101010001 111110101100101 101000101010101 001000101010011 111010100010001 110000101010101 100010101010101 101010101010101 101010101010011 101010100010001 101010101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (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; all is repeated.
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