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

There are flowers that never wither,
There are skies that never fade,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd cecefgfg hihidede fjfjfkfk ehXeliliXadadjiji
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,17,
  • Metre: 111011010 1111101 11111010 10100101 111010010 0010101 10111010 1011001 10011110 1110101 10111010 00100100 10111110 1010101 11111110 10110101 10101111 1000101 10101011 0010111 10101010 1000101 010101010 1010101 10111010 1010101 10100110 1011101 10101010 0011001 101010010 0010101 10101010 1010001 00111010 0110111 110101010 11000111 100101010 1011101 11111010 1010111 10111010 0010001 10101110 011001001 10101010 1110101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 48

Repeated words/phrases

there, that

Anaphora

there