This is an analysis of the poem The African Chief that begins with:
SEE how the black ship cleaves the main,
High bounding o'er the dark blue wave, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb defe gbgX hghg eeee agag eeee ieie ejej kaka jjjj fldl mjmj nbnb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011101 110100111 100000101 11000101 01010101 010011001 10110001 01100101 01010101 110101001 1101010010 11010101 11010101 100111101 00110101 1101010100 110100111 10010101 10110101 11110001 01110101 01010101 01011101 11011101 10011101 010110111 01010101 11010101 10011101 10010101 11010101 110010101 11100101 110000101 01011101 11010101 010101011 00111101 11010101 11010101 11011101 01100101 1010101 10110100 01011101 01100101 11010101 11010101 110101010 10110101 110010101 11010101 10110101 1000001001 011001001 010001001 11011101 110100101 11010101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; , of, his, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, whose are repeated.
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- summary of The African Chief;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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