This is an analysis of A Piccaninny by James Brunton Stephens.
Lo by the “humpy” door a smockless Venus!
Unblushing bronze, she shrinks not, having seen us,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbX XXX Xcc bbb XdX ccc bbb aee bbb fff ddd ccX bbb fff eee ddd ccc fff bXX gXg ddd fff eee eeX eee ddd XXX fffX eee cXc
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,3,3,
- Metre: 11010101010 10011111011 11011111011 11110111010 11110111010 10110101010 11010101010 11011101010 11010101110 110110000100 1100100010 11110001010 11010101110 11010100110 11011111010 11000101010 11011101010 11010101100 01100001010 10110011010 11011101000 10110100111 11010101011 11011101111 11011111110 110111010100 110100010100 11010111110 110101111010 01010111010 11110001011 01110111011 11010101111 11111000010 01010011110 0100101010010 111000001010 01110001010 11110101000 11010101010 0100010101010 01000101010 11110101011 11110101011 11011111111 10110001010 10010101010 11010111010 11110101110 11111111110 11010011010 01011101010 11110101010 11010101010 11010101111 110100110101 11110101011 111101010010 0101001000 01111101000 01010100101 11010111010 010100100010 01111111110 01011101010 11010101010 110100101011 11011101011 11010101011 11110101010 11010101110 11010001010 11111101010 111101111010 11010010000 11110111010 10011101010 11110111110 10111100110 10011100010 11010001010 10011111000 0111110100 1110110000 11010001011 11011101011 11011101011 11011001010 11111101010 11010011010 11111111010 11110101110 01010011010 01111111010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 31
- Lines: 94
Repeated words/phrases
or, so, on, of, and, thee, to, thy, me, let, not
Anaphora
or, could, where, of, to, her, while, let
Epiphora
us, on, is, thee, me
