This is an analysis of Out In The Cold by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

Out in the cold mid the dreary night,
Under the eaves of homes so bright:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff ggcc hhcc hhiiXccaa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 100110101 10010111 111010101 01110111 011100111 011100101 10010101 100111001 10010101 110010011 110110101 110010111 100101101 0110100101 11011111 11101101 10011111 11010101 101011101 10110101 10011101 00110001 100101001 10010101 010011111 01011101 1010110111 1010010101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

in, out, and

Anaphora

a