This is an analysis of the poem A Song of the White Men that begins with:

1899
Now, this is the cup the White Men drink... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abXbXcac dddddddd dXXXXeee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 100010111 1110101 1100100111 101111 111111010101 110101 1110110111 00100111 1000110111 1110101 10101101101 1011101 111111011101 110111 1110110111 111111 1000110111 1111101 10101110111 110101 11111110011 110101 1110110111 011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, our are repeated.

    The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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