This is an analysis of the poem Poems On The Slave Trade - Sonnet Ii that begins with:
Why dost thou beat thy breast and rend thine hair,
And to the deaf sea pour thy frantic cries?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacbbcadadee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111111111 1001111101 0101010101 010110010101 10010000101 1111010101 1111111111 1011110011 1101110101 1011010101 1100111111 1101010101 1111010101 1101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 635
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hark is repeated.
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