This is an analysis of the poem Marie Laveau that begins with:
Down in Lou´siana where the black trees grow
Lives a voodoo lady named Marie Laveaux....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbXBccddXB eeaXffaXXB gghXhXXXXB aXiiXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,10,10,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010010111 10111010110 11011110101 110011001 111 010111 1100100101 00111101101 110110101101 10110111011 111 010111 111110111 00011101 01011111 111100110110 111011101 1111001011111 1010101111111 0101110101 101 010111 10101101110101 1010101110001 11111111 1101011101 1110111101 1111010111 1011010011010 01010101011010 111 010111 101101110111 110111010110 101101101011 1110100101011 1101 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 376
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, you, ll, i, started, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word gone at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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