This is an analysis of I Thirst by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
FIRST VOICE.
I thirst, but earth cannot allay…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bcbc dede afgf a X ghah hidi XhXh
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11 11111001 01010111 01010101 01110101 01000101 110100101 11010111 01000101 11011101 11001101 11111101 101110101 101 11011100110 11011101 110101 01101101 010111 11110101 111101 01010001 010101 010101101 1000101 11111111 011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
the
Epiphora
heart