This is an analysis of Ellen by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
Sweet star, of seraph brightness,
That for a transient day…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefegeg hihiXfhf
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 1101010 110101 11011110 110101 1001010 11100101 0101110 010101 1101110 1101011 1101110 111101 0111110 111111 1111110 110101 1101010 111101 1110010 011101 1101010 100101 1111110 001101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Anaphora
that