Speech Of The Red Indian by Mahmoud Darwish: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Speech Of The Red Indian that begins with:

So, we are who we are, as the Mississippi flows,
and what remains from yesterday is still ours- ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbacabdbaefcfbghdacichbj acaklaahbmdekXbnfaobfppihbhenenbhbcpppllbcqjhef rjfahaaabpbfoacapbhhjlslteibeojXuphabjchlahjfjtb habthlfktbabaavdhbbhbbajaadetaihpaaXlancaajajfjbaaeevfaXjqajfsbjlaababhfrajhusvhjgabalcaadhii aahhbhjpkdlaaaeiehejobabohofffelbedjr
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,47,48,93,60,51,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111010101 11010101011 101000111 0100111 111010010 1111011011 0011 110110110010 01110011110 01000001001 01011111 10110110 110111101 10101 1101101 001010111 1001001 10010111 010100101 10111011 1101 111101 011101 101010 10100111 111011 0110101010101 1010101 01111 1010100101100 001 1111101010 11111100 1110001000101 110100011 1110101001 11011111110 0111110 0111001010 0111100101010100 111 01011011010 11011 011100101110 11010010110 111 11011110010101 10001 11110101 101100100110100 01011 11 1110100101 110111001010 111010011 00001110 11011010011 101100011 101010101 111011 11101001 111101111 1101111 1101111 00110111101 1111001 11101101010101 1111001 111011010111 110100111 110101101 11110 1110011 111010011 11110101 11100101111 11101011 1101101001 0101 11111111 1110101111 1111 01111110 111011 101110001 1000010001 101011 1111101 10010111 1101101 01010111100 1110101 10101 11010100100100 100010100100010 101101001 1110010001 01101101 0010110010 11001001010101010 1001 1100101001111010 1110000010 111010101101 1001011100 1010100010 111110001000 101010010 11011000100001 10101 11101001 101111111 01010101 11011 10101001111 10101 01110111 101001 1100101 1111 110101 11101000100101 0101 0111110 010100010 0100101 101010101101 10010010100101 11000101110 01001 10011010111 11011 1111100010010 11110011 110101010001 0111101 11000111 11111010001011 10111 00101011 11110101100 1111 1001000101 10111000101 101011011 101110 10111010 00101 1111000001010 1001001 100100101 101001111101 101001111 110101011 1111001 010110011100 0010010 010110101 11111111 101010101 1101100101001 10110101 111110111101 11011001110110 11010011 1 1111101 01001110 1011 1011110110111 10111 111010 110100101101110 01101 11101 110101001 10011110 1110100010 110111 01100010 1100110010101 111011 101101 111 110101 110101 101010010 10111 111111010101 110011001001 01011101110 10111101 11111101 1110111101 01001 11010111011010 11010101 110010100 00111 101111 01010 111 001 110100011101 11111111 010101 1011 1100101111001 11001111101 110100101011 110101011010 00101 10110111 10110111 101110 110010110 11010 0111111 101110001 111101101 1011001 11110010110 1011111010 10010011100110 1011010011 111100100110 111111111 11111111 10010 1101111 11110 101011010001 001100100 10110010 1011001010 0110110 101011010110 0110110 111100001 111111 11011111 1100111111 1111111 110001001 010 01 11101101 101010100110110 101010101 11010 0111110111 0111110111 1000111000001 11100010101110 110010011010 11111011011 101101101001011 0111010111011 11101001001 11110110011 0101100 10111100111 1101 10111101 1101 1011011 11111101 10110000 1101010 1001 11101101 101101011 11100101111001 1110111100101 01101011011 010111111 1011111 1010111 1101010101 101011 1011101 01011010 0010111 11111101 1001011100101 0001010100101 011001010 111111100 111111110 111111110 111111111 00101 111111001 100101111101 111111 0101011111 111011110110 11 00101 001110001110011 10001 011001 0110 01001 0110101001011 101001001 111001011 11101 1010 1110100101 1101111111 10110001 10101 101010011 01110100101 1010010001 11100101 0111001111 010111110 111111 1010101 110101101 01101111 011011 011011 0111 01101001 1010110 01101010 11111101 0101 1011111 0111 11011011 1101 11111001 101110 111011 001011 0010001 01011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1491
  • Average number of words per stanza: 282
  • Amount of lines: 341
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, his, to, have, we, yours, as, such, your, less, our, who, and, you, here, my, by, there, dead are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, the, we, don't, you, a, who, and, no, in, i, of, here, we'll, there, through are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines changed, have, ours, peace, you, here, us are repeated).

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