This is an analysis of The Dying Bondman by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
Life was trembling, faintly trembling
On the bondman's latest breath,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb ddXd Xdad cded Xfgf ehah dfgX ciei ahXh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1110010100 1010101 11101010 0011101 11011010 1011101 10101010 1010101 11101010 1011101 10111010 1110101 10111010 1010101 10101111 1110111 1000101010 10111111 10111110 1011111 100100110 1110101 01101110 1011111 100101010 1110111 10101010 10111110 10101010 1110101 100111010 1011101 10011010 101101111 10101010 1110101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
his, i, write, he
Anaphora
master