This is an analysis of the poem Maxime Labelle that begins with:

Victoriaw: she have beeg war, E-gyp's de nam' de place--
An' neeger peep dat's leev 'im dere, got very black de face,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXX bbcc XXXX ddeX XXfX ffff eghh XhbX iiiX Xebb XXdX XXdX XXXX XdXX jjkX eell hhdd ddbb eXcc hhkX bbaa XgXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001111110101 11011111110101 1111101001111010 11111111110100 1101101110111 11001110111111 01010001110111 110011101001001 11110111111111 11111100110111 11111101101100 10110101110111 11010101111111 11111101110111 11011111111111 101001101101011 1101011111100 11011101110010 111111010111101 111111100111011 11111111011101 010001111110101 1111110111111 11010111001111 01011111011101 111010010110010 11111101111101 11111101110101 011101011011 11010111110101 11110111110111 111101100111100 11011101110101 11111101010101 11111110110101 11011111110100 11110110111110 11111111110111 11111101110101 11011111110111 110111100101110 1111111111110 10110110110111 101100011111111 110111100111100 01010101110100 11010111111101 10111001101110 10111110010101 01001110100100 11110111101101 01110110011100 11111101111011 11011011110101 110101110110110 11011101111101 11010111110101 11011110110111 11111101111101 1111110111110 01010011110101 11010111010101 11110011111111 11010111111101 01110101110101 11011111110101 11011111110111 11011111110111 1111011011111 11110101110111 11010101110101 11110111111111 11111000011101 11111101110110 01011111111111 111111101101001 110111111101001 11111101111111 10110110111101 1111111111100 110011111111111 11011110110101 1010111111001 1111100110101 11111111010110 11111101111110 10111101111110 1110110111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 88
  • Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', de, you, we, jomp, i, ', way, on, toot, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.

    The author used the same words 'i, de, we, but 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 ' is repeated).

    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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