This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of Los that begins with:

AFRICA
I will sing you a song of Los. the Eternal Prophet: ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcaXd dbef dbghfeXd XX iciXX bjgbjhk ecXb gbledgle jhmbl heeb a gnodgX gp qdddce ofhe dceX qi ckpXc nqj keeebgr m afi ddrb gj ffiql eeee fiXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,4,8,2,5,7,4,8,5,4,1,6,2,6,4,4,2,5,3,7,1,3,4,2,5,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100 10110101001010 110011101000100 011100 1001010010 110101 1010010010 11010100101 111001010010 101001001 1010101011010100 1101010100010001 11001 111011001010001 01101011011100010100 10101010 011010010 101001111101010 01000100011011 0100010110 11110101011101 111101110010100 1101010100100 11010101010110 010010100 01010101010101 01010100101 10100101010 110011100010001 1010001101 10010101010101 01010001000101 1001011010100 1111010100100 1101010 1101010010101001 1111111101 01110101011 111111 00110101 10010101 010001 11010101 011101 1010010110001 1010001011001 1101101010 1001000110101 10011000010101 1110010110101 11010010010011 01010100100101010 010010100100101 10 010101 0111010 1111001 0010101 1010010110 1011010101001 1010101 11010001 11011110001 1011100001 00100101 0010001011 00101100100 10100101 110100101 0100100100 0101011 001100010 1010100001 11100010 1101010 00100100100 011001 00101001 011010010 101011001 10100111 1010011010 10100100100 101101011 0110101 11001001 100101 1010101 101001011 1010011010 010111 10101101 101001111 10101010 11110010 1100101 1101100100 1100100100 111010010 1101111 10100101 101001001001 00101001 1100101010 0110100100101 101001001 0101 1 10011100101 11010001011 1111011011 10101100 0110011 010110101 010101010 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 28
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 117
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, round, from, that, may are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, the, and, that, her are repeated.

    The author used the same words adam, shall, to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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