This is an analysis of The Black Mammy by James Weldon Johnson.
O whitened head entwined in turban gay,
O kind black face, O crude, but tender hand,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcdXdXebeb
- Stanza lengths: 16,
- Metre: 11001010101 1111111101 1101001111 0111110001 0111110011 0111110101 0101110101 0111110001 1101101101 0101011101 1101011111 1111010101 1101110111 0111110111 1101011101 1011111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
o, it, that
Anaphora
o, it