This is an analysis of The Drunkard's Child by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
He stood beside his dying child,
With a dim and bloodshot eye;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbadad XbebfbbX eacafcXc agegbdgX eaaahehe
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 11010101 0011101 101100101 010111 1100111001 011001 11010101 110111 00111010 110101 10111010 0101001 0101010 110101 1010100101 10101110 11100101 01101 11011101 101111 110111 110101 110111 1101111 1010010101 011111 101110011 111111 11010101 0010101 11110111 10111100 11100101 10011011 01010101 011101 01010101 110101 11010101 110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
and, me, his
Anaphora
his
