This is an analysis of the poem Ethiopia Saluting The Colors that begins with:
WHO are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human,
With your woolly-white and turban'd head, and bare bony feet?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abb Xcc Xbb Xcc Xaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11110101101010 011011100111101 11010111110101 1111011010111 101101110100101 1101010110101 110001010110100 01011111010101 11010101010101 11011111001011 011100111110101 11000100010101 1001010111010 1111010110111 10111110011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me is repeated.
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