This is an analysis of Lines by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
I hied me to the ocean-side;
Its waves rolled bright and high;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababacac XdedfXfa gfgffXfX ebehijij ekeklmlm nlnlhobo
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 11100101 011111 01010101 110101 11111101 010101 11010101 010101 010111010 1111010 110000101 11001110 01111101 0101100 01110101 111101 11011101 011101 010011101 010101 11010101 1100101 010110101 1010111 11011101 010101 01010011 111100 11101101 000101 11110101 110111 01011111 110101 10111101 1111101 11100111 010111 01010111 011101 01110101 0100101 10100101 010101 01000100 110101 101110001 110101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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