This is an analysis of the poem Blood Rhythms - Blood Currents - Black N' Blue Stylin' that begins with:
(French sugar-beet farmers, overwhelmed by mulatto competitors, plastered Europe's cities with advertisements proclaiming: 'Our sugar is not soiled...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme:
- Stanza lengths (in strings):
- Closest metre:
- Сlosest rhyme:
- Сlosest stanza type:
- Guessed form:
- Metre:
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 381
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 94
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; with, sugar, ', for, wit, and, that, new are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words like, for, a, the, freedom are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines breath is repeated).
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