This is an analysis of He Had Not Where To Lay His Head by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
The conies had their hiding-place,
The wily fox with stealthy tread…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbb cdXd XcXc Xcbc daba bede
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 01011101 01010101 01011101 11010101 01011101 010010101 110100111 11010101 10111100 00110111 11110111 11111111 01111101 11101101 01110111 01100101 11110111 11010111 11100101 11010101 11011001 01010001 01100001 110100111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Anaphora
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