Analysis of The Negro Speakes of Rivers
Langston Hughes 1902 (Joplin) – 1967 (New York City)
I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
the flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln
went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy
bosom turn all golden in the sunset.
I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
Scheme | Axx A xxxxxx Aa A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110 11101010101010 0111010101 111111010 11000101101 11111010011111 110101010100011 11010100101110 1111100011110 101110001 1110 10110 111111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 563 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 1, 6, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on February 11, 2022
Modified on May 03, 2023
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