This is an analysis of Jamie's Puzzle by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
There was grief within our household
Because of a vacant chair.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXb Xaca cded fbXb ageg hafa abXf aafa edhd aifi
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11101111 0100101 11011110 1101101 11110010 110101 110101100 110101 11111010 0010111 00111010 11000101 11111010 1101111 01010010 1000101 10111010 1110011 01001010 1010101 10101010 1011101 11101010 1010101 01010010 0100111 10111010 1101100 10101110 0110101 11110110 1101001 01011010 0111101 01011010 1100101 11111110 0101101 11001010 1100101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
of, to
Anaphora
our, of, to, from
