This is an analysis of Ho For California! by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
Rouse ye, Yankees, from your dreaming!
See that vessel, strong and bold,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbddBeebff dgdgchhhddBccbfF ababaiaiddBjjbfFXcjcjebebaabaabfF
- Stanza lengths: 16,16,33,
- Metre: 11100110 1110111 10101010 101011 10101010 1010101 10111110 1110101 1010 1110 1110101 1010 1110 100101 010101110 110101010 111001010 1011101 10101010 0010101 10101010 1100111 1110101 1011101 10010 1010 1110101 1010 1110 1110101 11101110 10101010 10101010 1110111 10101110 0001001 11101010 1011101 11111110 1011101 1101 1111 1110101 1111 0101 010101001 11101010 10101010 10111010 1010101 10111110 1111101 10101110 1010101 10101010 0100101 1010 1110 1111101 0110 1010 1110101 11101010 10101010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 64
