This is an analysis of Lines To A Friend, by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

ON REMOVING FROM HER NATIVE VILLAGE.

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X aabb ccdd eeaa ffgg bXaa eehh ggii ddee gXaaXeedd
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 1010001010 0101011110111 1101110111111 110110101111101 10111110110011 11001011111111 101010101110101 10101011010111 11010101110001 1101110110101 1111010010111 1110110111101 0101110110101 1100110110101 10101110011101 1101110110101 1101010110111 11110010110111 01001101101010 1101010110101 1101010111101 1101110011101 1111010110111 1101110110101 1011110101111 11010101100101 01010100101001 11011111101001 1001010101110 1111110010101 0111110111100 1111010111101 1101010010101 1111101111101 1111010111101 1101011010101 110111110111001 1101010011111 11110101010011 1101110111101 10100101011101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 11
  • Lines: 42

Repeated words/phrases

and, that, on

Anaphora

we