This is an analysis of A Poem on the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy by Nikki Giovanni.
Trees are never felled . . . in summer . . . Not when the fruit . . .
is yet to be borne . . . Never before the promise . . . is fulfilled . . .…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aba XbX XXX
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,
- Metre: 111010101101 010011001010001 11110111010 111110001001000 010010001101110 110111100 10110111110 10111011010 10
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 9
Repeated words/phrases
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