This is an analysis of the poem Ego Tripping that begins with:

I was born in the congo
I walked to the fertile crescent and built...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabcdae fXXaXdgf eaaddah hahf eihdbidX eicdXXeaXaeb gfXhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,7,4,8,12,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110010 1100011011 01 101010011101 110110011001 000101001011 111 11101 1010010 11111111010 0111 1101001000 010111 01001 11010010 11101011 1001010 0010011 10101 1100110 1100111 111111 1011011111 11111001100 11111101 111101 11101101 1110101 111101101 1111001111 10 1011101 110110 1101111 11100111 1100100100 010011011 101010 1011 110111 1110100101 111110110101 11101111011 01111 0101111111 011100 1110110110100101 110010100111010 11001 101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, so are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, my, the are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Ego Tripping;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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