This is an analysis of Our Helen by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
Our Helen is a 'perfect love'
Of a blue-eyed baby;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXb Xaca ddcd XXXa badX XXea bdXd eddd Xafa bfXf
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 110001010 001110 1111001 101010 1010101 111110 1111101 001110 1111101 0111110 100101101 0101010 1110101 1101110 11110101 11010100 11010101 0101110 10010101 1101010 110101010 1111110 11110101 1111110 01010100 0101010 11010101 0101010 11110101 0101010 1101001 0100010 11110101 0111110 11011101 1101110 01011101 0101010 01010101 0101010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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Epiphora
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