This is an analysis of President Lincoln's Proclamation Of Freedom by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
IT shall flash through coming ages;
It shall light the distant years;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXa abcb dede efaf egbg cbXb cbXb dgcgXabfb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 01111010 0110100 1111010 1010111 01101010 1010111 011010100 111101 01101010 1010101 10111010 010111 01101010 1010101 10111010 1010101 10111110 1110101 10111110 0010001 10111010 1000101 0101110 110101 10101110 110001 1111010 0010011 10101010 10011101 10111010 0010101 10111011 10100101 101001010 1100101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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