This is an analysis of Mother's Treasures by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
Two little children sit by my side,
I call them Lily and Daffodil;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cbdb eccc edcd acec afXf ebab ffaX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 110101111 110101101 111000101 101001000 1110101 110110101 111110101 11011101 011110001 11010101 11110011 10100111 11111111 01010111 11110101 10110101 11111111 01001001 11111110 010011100 111111101 01010101 111001010 11101101 11011110 11100101 10101101 01111111 11011101 10101010 0101101111 1001011100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Anaphora
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