This is an analysis of the poem A Negro Love Song that begins with:
Seen my lady home las' night,
Jump back, honey, jump back....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaBcccBdBdBeXeB XBXBeeXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 111011 1111101 111011 1110101 1011111 1011101 111011 1011101 111011 1011101 111011 1111101 1111101 1111101 111011 1111011 111011 1111101 111011 1110111 1111111 111010110 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 388
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; jump, back, love, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word love is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word back at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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