This is an analysis of the poem Philosophy that begins with:
I been t'inkin' 'bout de preachah; whut he said de othah night,
'Bout hit bein' people's dooty, fu' to keep dey faces bright;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb XXcc bbdd Xdaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010101110101 111010101011101 111011101110101 101000111110101 1111110101011111 1111101010100001 1111101011110110 1011110101010101 101110101011101 1111110111111111 101011100010111 111101101010111 1111110101110101 011010101010101 101010101010101 111010101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; dat, 's, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word but is repeated.
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- summary of Philosophy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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