This is an analysis of the poem An Ante-Bellum Sermon that begins with:
We is gathahed hyeah, my brothahs,
In dis howlin' wildaness,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXbXX cXXXXdXX cXcXXeXe dcdcXbab XXfgbbcb XhXhXcXc XXXXXbgb XXcXccgc ggegXbeb gXXXXXXb XbXfXbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001110 0110100 10111010 0110001 11101110 1110111 101111010 1011111 11101010 1011101 11101010 1110001 11011101010 1111111 11101110 1011101 11101010 1011101 11101110 10100110 11011010 1110101 10101010 1111101 11100111 0011001 10101101 1010101 11111110 1010001 10101110 1010101 10111010 1011101 10101010 1110101 11111011 1011101 10101010 1110101 11111010 110101 10111110 1011101 10111010 1111101 11111110 1110001 01011010 1010111 10101010 1010101 111010010 1011111 10101110 1010111 11101110 11101010 10101110 00100010 11111111 1111100 11001110 1110111 11101010 1010101 11001010 1010101 11101010 1110101 10101110 001001 10100010 1110111 11101010 1110101 11101110 1111100 1111010 1111111 11101010 1111101 10101010 1111100 11111000 1110101 111000110 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 88
- 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; an', de, i'se, you, git are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i'se, an', we are repeated.
The author used the same words an', but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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