This is an analysis of the poem They Clapped that begins with:
they clapped when we landed
thinking africa was just an extension ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacXdXacXdXXecbacbbXeXfbedefadf Xaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110 10100111010 0011 1111101001 1011110101001 10100 11001 1011001000101 11001101101101 10101110010 10010101000011111 0111001001101001 0100 11101110100 10101010111010 11010010001110011 10011101001010 10 1111101010110 01011101001 111111101111 10001011010100100 10100100101111010 01010 10010101111101001 01011001110011101 1111011100100100 11111001111001 1110010111110110 110101110101010010 110101000101010 0011011100110 111111 110101 1110110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 826
- Average number of words per stanza: 138
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, they are repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of They Clapped;
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