This is an analysis of The Reunion by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

Well, one morning real early
I was going down the street,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXb cacX Xded ffgX bghg XXiX gbXb Xhih ajej jchX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1110110 1110101 11101010 110101 1110001 1111110 11111001 1100110 11111111 110111 11111110 111111 11101101 1101101 11110101 1111010 11010111 110101 11110101 110101 111111010 110111 11011101 111111 11010101 110111 11011101 011101 1101110 0111111 11010101 11101 11101010 111101 11101010 110111 11110101 011111 11101100 1101010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 10
  • Lines: 40

Repeated words/phrases

and, you, '

Anaphora

and

Epiphora

', all