This is an analysis of Learning To Read by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
Very soon the Yankee teachers
Came down and set up school;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb daea bfXf bcfc gdad gbcb hgXg bdca hcec acdcXggcg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 10101010 111111 11101010 011011 11011101 110011 101010100 111111 11011101 010001 1101010 111111 10101010 111101 11010001 110001 11010101 010101 11101010 110001 11110101 110101 11011111 110101 10101110 010101 11111111 110111 11101110 110101 11110010 11111 11101110 110111 11111010 111101 11101010 110111 11011111 011100 11101010 010111 11111010 1010101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
and, i
Anaphora
and
Anadiplosis
it, well
