This is an analysis of Bury Me In A Free Land by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

Make me a grave where'er you will,
In a lowly plain, or a lofty hill;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff gghh iijj bbdd hhccXiibb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 110110010 0010110101 100111001 110011111 111100111 1101001001 011011101 110010101 111101101 001100101 101010101 1101101001 111101101 100111101 111011001 1100101101 1101101101 010101101 111010101 111010101 0111101101 101111101 111100101 11111101 111111101 111100101 111010101 111101001 111100111 0010100101 11110101 0101100101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 32

Repeated words/phrases

i, her

Anaphora

i, my