This is an analysis of Church Building by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
Uncle Jacob often told us,
Since freedom blessed our race…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaba cded fgXg fhbh hcXc Xcgc XXeX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 10101011 110111 11101010 110101 1111111 010111 11101110 010101 1101110 1010101 11101010 1011101 10111010 011111 10101010 110101 11111010 110111 1111010 011111 110110010 111101 11101111 100101 1111010 110101 10100010 101101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
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