This is an analysis of the poem The White Man's Burden that begins with:
Take up the White man's burden --
Send forth the best ye breed --... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abcbdbeb Abfbcaga AdadggXX AefefbXb AbfbXgXX AdhdfieiXAecebehe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110 110111 1111011 0111001 0101010 110111 1111010 110111 1101110 010001 0101010 110101 1101110 110111 0101010 110101 1101110 010101 1101010 110101 1111010 011101 1111010 111101 1101110 110101 1101110 010101 0111110 011111 1100110 110011 1101110 110101 0101110 010111 0101110 1100101 10111010 10101010 1101110 111101 1111110 011100 1111110 111111 0101010 111111 1101110 110101 0101010 0101001 1101111 110100 1101110 010011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and, the, by are repeated.
The author used the same word take at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The White Man's Burden;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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