This is an analysis of the poem The Booker Washington Trilogy that begins with:
I. A NEGRO SERMON:—SIMON LEGREE
(To be read in your own variety of negro dialect.)... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X bbccdedX ffffffcc dddX aaX gghhggX iiXjkkjjX ffXllbbc fffbbX aaaXggllbbbccX b X BXmbmbXbcbAA BXXbXbdbfbAA BXbbbbdbenbAA BXBBXbdbddaO BXXbhbXbgBbBcb XabbaO BXBBledeedgiddBB m i X X P bB X BB P B X BB D bb q aD D b X b b D j X j X dD D l X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,8,8,4,3,7,9,8,6,14,1,1,12,12,13,12,14,6,16,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,2,1,1,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,4,1,3,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,5,1,1,1,1,1,4,1,2,1,2,1,6,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,6,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,2,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101001 10010110100010100 10111111 0101001001 11110110010 1101011110 0101101001 1010101 11011111 1011100100 0111001101 011110111 011101101 1011011111 011101101 1111111101 111111001 110110111 01110101 011101111 1110011001 1011100100 111111111 0100111101 1011100100 11110101 111010011 11010101 001100111 110011101 11011101 11100100 110100111 11000111 111011111100 11011101 110011101 111000111 1001000101 111011101 11100100 011110111 10011111 10100100 10011101 111100101 1101010111 100100111 11101010 101111101 01110101 11111101 11110111 11111101 111010000 1010101001 1011111011 11111101 11111100 11111111 11110111 1110101101 1110101101 11010111 110101101 1110101 1010010 110010 1100100 111 10011010110010100100010101010100100 100101 1001101000 1101010 0110111 1111010 010101 1111110 10001 11010010 0010111 1010111 01011 100101 1001101000 1110000 11001 110101000 010101 1101010 110101 111101001 10001 1010111 01011 100101 1001101000 1011100 10101 10101010 10101 1110100 110101 1 1101110 1101001 1010111 01011 100101 1001101000 111 111 110101 100111 110101 010111 11100101 0101111 00110101 1010101 100101 1001101000 1101110 11111 110111 11111 1101010 111111 1101010 111111 11010100 111111 11010100 1100101 111101000 111101 11110111 0010101 10110101 1010101 100101 1001101000 111 111 1111 0101 0101 10111 0111 1111 01001 0101 10111 0101 111 111 11100101010 0101 10101010100101001101101100 111010111010101010001011010010 110 010101011100 111100 111100 111100 111100 1010 1101 111100 1101 1101 110 100111 101101 101010101110010 1011 11100 110 11001111010 10101011100011000 1010 10010 110 111111 10111110100 110111 101101010111000 1011 11100 110 11001111011 11101100101010110 1010 10011 1011010100 110 111101 1110111100100 111101 101101 101101 1101 11010101000 11100 1101 11100 110 11001111101 10100010101001001111000100 1010 1001 110 111101 111100 111101 101101 1001011011100100 101101 11101 11100 11101 11100 110 1100 1011010001001101100100010001001010010010110011011100 1100 1010 01010111010 101010 1010101 100101 10101101101011010011100 100101 11010 110 11001100010 101010 101101010111010001100011000111010000 101010100110 11110111110 110101 110101 101101 11010 110 1100111101 110010110111100 1010 1001 11011111010100 110 110101 10000100100 111101 110111101010101010 1001 11100 110 11111101010 1011000101011100 1010 10010 110 111101 101111001100 010101 10101110100 1111 11100 110 11001101010 101010 10101101011110110010 101011 100111 101111 11010 1010 01010101010 101010 101011001010110100100 101010100110 11110111110 110101 100101 101101 11010 110 01010111010 101001100101110 1010 10010 111110 110 111111 100101 101100111101010001001010 1111 11100 1010 01010111010 101010 101011001101001001 1000111 110101 110101 11010 110 11001100010 101010 1010110101010111010001100011000111010000 101110101010 110101 100101 101101 11010 1100 1100 110 11001111010 1010011001010010 1010 10010 110 110101 11010110100 100101 1011010010101100 1001 11100 10110101000111010101000 110 11001111010 110110001110001010100 1010 10010 11110110100 110 111101 101010011110111010110 100111 100110 1100 110 11001101010 101010 1111101001010111100 1010111 100101 100101 11010 1010 01010101010 101010 1111000111011011100 101001100010 111100011110 111111 111111 110101 11010 110 1100 1100 110 11001101010 11010101110 1110100100 111111110 1111011101111000 1010101101 1000 10010 110 110111 111111110111011010000 111111 1101001 11111110100100 1100 1100 101111011010100010010010010000 1100
- Amount of stanzas: 179
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 71
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 428
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i, he, to, and, see, down, with, devil, his, by, of, king, solomon, again, in, leader, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, he, and, they, down, old, by, the, cymbals, king are repeated.
The author used the same words i, he, i've at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines devil, brown, solomon, queen, again are repeated).
The poet repeated the same words i, sea at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases i, blow connect the lines.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Booker Washington Trilogy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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