This is an analysis of Nothing And Something by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
It is nothing to me, the beauty said,
With a careless toss of her pretty head;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaa aaddbbee aaeeffgg aaXhiibb aaaaggaa jjbbXaahh
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,9,
- Metre: 0010010101 0010100101 010101101 001110101 0110000100 101010101 111010111 1100101001 0010010101 111111101 001010111 111111001 01100011101 001011101 110100101 010101111 0010010111 0011010111 111010111 111111111 011001101011 0100111001 110010111 1010100101 0010010101 1100101101 010010111 111110111 011001110010 01010010010 0100101101 1011100101 0010010101 010101101 110110101 11011101 0110010101 1010010101 101010111 110011101 0010110101 1010011101 010011100 110110101 0010111101 10111101 01010111 1010111001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
and, i, of, to
Anaphora
and, i, a