This is an analysis of Our Hero by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
Onward to her destination,
O'er the stream that Hannah sped,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cded fgeg hici ffff cdXd cfjf fXXX bbhb bkjk Xb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,
- Metre: 10001010 10011101 10101010 1111101 10101010 1010011 10101010 1010111 10100110 1011101 10100010 10011001 10111010 01100101 11101010 1010101 10111011 1110101 11101010 1010101 10101010 0010111 11110110 1010101 10001110 1110011 11101010 1010101 11111111 10101110 11111010 1110101 11111010 10110001 01111110 1010101 10011110 1010101 11101010 1011111 10101010 1011101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 42
Repeated words/phrases
of, he
Anadiplosis
perish
