This is an analysis of the poem We Are Coming, Father Abraam, 300,000 More that begins with:
We are coming Father Abraam, three hundred thousand more,
From Mississippi's winding stream and from New England's shore;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaaaaAXXXbbaAXXXccaAXbbbbaAaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11101010110101 01010101101101 1111111111101 01111100010101 1111011111001 11101010110101 1 01101011110101 11010101110110 11011101010101 11011101010101 110100111111101 11101010110101 1 011111101010101 111110101110100 11001101110101 11010111011101 101111101100101 11101010110101 1 11111010110101 01111101110101 10110101010101 10010101010001 11010101111101 11101010110101 111010110001 111010100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1561
- Average number of words per stanza: 269
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, coming are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, and are repeated.
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