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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