This is an analysis of the poem A Grievance that begins with:
Wen de snow 's a-fallin'
An' de win' is col'....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXaX XXXXbXbX cbcbaXaX XXXXdbdX XcXcXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010 10101 101010 11101 101010 11111 101110 111110 111010 10101 101010 10110 1111111 11011 101111 10111 111110 10110 1111010 101111 1001001 11101 1111100 1111 111010 11001 111010 10101 111010 10111 101110 11111 1011010 11111 1101110 11101 001110 11111 111010 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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