This is an analysis of the poem Poems On The Slave Trade - Sonnet I that begins with:
Hold your mad hands! for ever on your plain
Must the gorged vulture clog his beak with blood?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacccccddccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111110111 10101010101 1101110101 10010010101 1111110101 0101011101 1111010101 0101010101 1001011101 1101000101 1111010001 1011110101 10110010001 110101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 643
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your is repeated.
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