This is an analysis of The Burdens Of All by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
We may sigh o'er the heavy burdens
Of the black, the brown and white;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbaded bfdXabeb aebeXbcb XbbbXfXf
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 1111001010 0010111 101111010 0101011 10111010 0100111 11011110 0101101 11001011 0101001 1011110101 11101010 11010010 0100101 111100101 0010011 11110010 11001001 11111111 0101001 11001010 0101011 110111010 10100101 010011110 0111001 110110101 0101101 11110010 0101001 1101100010 1010011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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