This is an analysis of the poem Frederick Douglass that begins with:
A hush is over all the teeming lists,
And there is pause, a breath-space in the strife;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedefX gcgcaa fXfhii jajXkk lklkmm jnjnbb fjfjcc hjhjff omomjjhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010101 1101011001 0101110101 1101010101 1101000101 0101000101 1111010101 1110010101 11010011000 1101110101 1101010001 1101110111 10010101001 1101010101 1001100111 1101000101 1101010101 11010010001 1111110100 11110100100 0110010101 1101011111 0111111101 1111011101 10110111001 11000110101 1101010101 01010101010 1101000101 1101000101 1101111101 010010001011 1101011101 1101110111 1100100101 1101110001 1100001111 0101000101 0101010101 0111010101 1100110001 1101011101 0111110101 1101010101 0101110101 1001111101 1101010111 1101000101 1111111101 1101000101 0101111101 0101000101 10111111101 1111010101 11001110101 11110101001 11111110111 1101011111 1011111101 11110010001 1100010101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; her, and, his, he, in, thy, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, she, his, the are repeated.
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