This is an analysis of My Heart by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

List I to the hurried beatings
Of my heart;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc caca cccc dada eaea XfXf gfgf gaga XgXg
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11001010 011 10101100 111 10111010 111 11101010 101 11111110 101 01100110 1001 10111010 111 10111010 101 11111110 001 11111010 011 11101110 101 11101110 101 10100100 101 10111010 0101 10101111 011 01111011 1101 11111011 011 10101111 11 10101100 101 00101110 111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 10
  • Lines: 40

Anaphora

pain