This is an analysis of the poem Temptation that begins with:
I done got 'uligion, honey, an' I 's happy ez a king;
Evahthing I see erbout me 's jes' lak sunshine in de spring;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcc dddd aaee XXaa ddff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111001011110101 10011101111110001 101111101100101 111110101011111 1111111011110111 111110101010011 1111110101111101 1001111101011001111 1100110011110101 1111101010101101 101111111011111 1110101011010111 101111111110101 0101011011111101 111110100111101 1110111011011101 1111010101010111 101010101110101 111010101110101 1111111101110101 111111101011111111 111011101100101 1011111101111101 011110101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', i, my, 's, to, gwine, de, could, dat are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Temptation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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