This is an analysis of My Mother's Kiss by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
My mother's kiss, my mother's kiss,
I feel its impress now;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb Xdad efcf agdg ehch hiai bjfj XdedXedgd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11011101 110011 10011101 110111 11000101 0111001 01010101 010101 01110101 0111001 11011001 111111 01110101 010101 11010111 110101 01000101 011101 11011101 011101 01110111 101111 11110101 110101 11110111 010001 11111101 111101 1101001001 010001 01011101 100111 01000101 111101 01110101 111001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
my, her
Anaphora
my
