This is an analysis of Aunt Chloe's Politics by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

Of course, I don't know very much
About these politics,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa Xbab cacX debe Xdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 01111101 011101 11111110 110101 1101011 111101 11101010 1110101 11101010 1010001 11011101 11101110 11101110 0010001 10111110 011111 10101110 010111 11101010 111101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20