This is an analysis of The Slave Mother by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
Heard you that shriek? It rose
So wildly on the air,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb cdXd XeXe bdad bada acXc cdXd ecec afafXfbcb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 111101 110101 01100101 110001 11111101 011101 010001101 110111 11010101 0100111 10010100 010101 10010101 011001 1001101 0100101 10101111 110101 10101101 010101 10101101 110101 01010111 110101 01100101 1100111 01010101 011101 01011001 010101 11010101 110111 111001001 011101 11011011 110101 11011101 0101001 10010101 010001
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
her
Anaphora
the
