This is an analysis of the poem The Colored Band that begins with:
W'EN de colo'ed ban' comes ma'chin' down de street,
Don't you people stan' daih starin'; lif' yo' feet!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaccXXcdadAAaXXXeeXXeXaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001110101 11101110111 1110101 11111001 10101110101 10101010001 10100010111 0010101 1010001 10101101101 111011001011101 11111110101 111010111110001 101001110101 101001110101 11101011001 1110111 1110101 11101110011 11100010101 110101011101 1010111 1010111 10101010101 101111101110001 10011010011 101100101011001 101001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1270
- Average number of words per stanza: 234
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; de, dey are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word w'en is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines street is repeated).
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- summary of The Colored Band;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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