This is an analysis of The Martyr Of Alabama by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
"Tim Thompson, a little negro boy, was asked to dance for the amusement of some white toughs. He refused, saying he was a church member. One of the men knocked him down with a club and then danced upon his prostrate form. He then shot the boy in the hip. The boy is dead; his murderer is still at large." -- News Item.
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- Stanzas: 22
- Lines: 86
Repeated words/phrases
he, his, boy, and, that, nor
Anaphora
a, i, and, for
