This is an analysis of the poem Pity For Poor Africans that begins with:
I own I am shocked at the purchase of slaves,
And fear those who buy them and sell them are knaves;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcc aadd eeff eegg gghh iieX jjXX iiee cciX aakk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11111101001 11111011011 111011011011 01101011001 11001011101 11111011011 01001011011 11110111011 0101101111 01001111111 01111011010 11011001011 01001111101 11001011101 11111011001 11111111011 11011001011 01011111001 11001011011 11101111001 01011101101 11001001001 01111011001 11101101001 11111111011 11101011111 0101101001 11001011101 11101111101 1101111011 01010111101 01111101011 11111011101 11101001011 11111101011 1100101110 101001001011 01011111001 11101011111 10111111101 01011011111 11001101001 11101011001 11001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; i, and, you, to, his, have, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words if, poor, he are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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