This is an analysis of the poem Hope that begins with:

DE dog go howlin' 'long de road,
De night come shiverin' down;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababCcdXefefdXccCXcXeeXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01110101 0111001 11010001 110111 11010101 11010101 11010101 11010111 11010101 010101 11111101 111001 11101111 11111101 11010111 11111111 11010101 111101 1101101 101101 11111110 11111001 11111101 11110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 747
  • Average number of words per stanza: 158
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • 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 used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word de is repeated.

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  • summary of Hope;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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