This is an analysis of Wanderer's Return by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
My home is so glad, my heart is so light,
My wandering boy has returned top;night.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbb ccdd eeee ffgg aadd ffaa hhffXaadd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1101111011 1100110110 1010111111 1111101010 0101100111 1100100101 01110100001 1110111001 1110100101 11101001001 1111111101 11010000101 0101111101 1100100101 1010011101 1011101011 1100101111 0011110101 00111100011 0111111001 0110111011 1100110101 1010101111 1010100101 1110010101 1110111101 1010110111 1110101101 0010101111 1011101100 1110100100 1111101111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
my, so, with, that, i, and
Anaphora
my, with, i