This is an analysis of A Double Standard by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

Do you blame me that I loved him?
If when standing all alone…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Abcb Aded dfgf cchc dcac fbXb daca Xabb Xdbd fici ebab bhgh cbfb ihXh
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11111111 0110101 11110101 101101 11111111 1111111 111100101 111101 111111011 010101 01011101 010101 111111111 010101 11110101 111101 111111101 110101 01010111 110101 111010011 110101 111100001 110111 11111101 110101 11010111 111101 111101101 110101 11110111 110101 11110010 010011 01011101 110101 11111101 110101 01111101 111101 01111111 111111 01011111 111101 11010111 010101 11010011 010101 11111111 111111 11010001 111101 11011101 010001 11010101 011001
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 14
  • Lines: 56

Repeated words/phrases

me, in

Anaphora

the