This is an analysis of the poem To The South that begins with:
ON ITS NEW SLAVERY
Heart of the Southland, heed me pleading now,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabb ccdd eecc ccdd fXcc ccgg eedd hhaa ffcc bbii eejj Xcff ffcc ggff hhdd XXcc kkcc hhff ffff llbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101100 1001111101 1101010111 0110010101 1111011101 11010101001 1111010101 1101000101 1001110111 1111011111 1111010111 1101101101 1011010001 1111111101 1001011101 111100111001 1111010111 1100110111 11110101000 11010110101 0101111111 1011011001 1110110101 1001010111 0111010101 1111010101 1101000101 1111010101 1101010101 01110101001 010010101001 1101001101 1111111101 1101111111 1101000101 1101000101 1011010101 11011101001 1011010001 1101010101 1101010101 1101110101 0101011101 1101000101 1101010101 1101010110 0101010111 1111000101 1101010111 1111010101 0101110101 1111010101 1101010101 1111011111 1101011101 1111010101 11110101001 1101111100 1101010111 1001010101 1101001101 1111010101 11010101111 01010010101 1001011101 0010111101 0101010101 1110010101 1111011011 1101110111 0101001101 0101011111 1100100001 0101111101 01001110101 11111001101 1101001101 1111110101 1101010101 1101010101 1111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 81
- 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; for, too, long, him, this, forgot are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words some, forgot, till are repeated.
The author used the same words there, for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of To The South;
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