This is an analysis of Negro Heroines by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer.
Down in history we find it and in grandest works of art,
How the men on fields of battle play so well the soldier's part,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eebb aaff gghh iiff ffee aaXX eecc ffaa jjff
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 101001101010101 101110101110101 111010100010111 100110100010101 101010101010101 101010101010101 111010101010101 111000100010101 101010101010101 101110101010101 111010100011101 101010101010101 111110101010101 001010100010101 001000101010101 101010101011101 101111100010101 001010101110101 00100101110101 111011101010101 001010100110111 101000101010101 111010101010001 101010101011101 101010101010101 101110101010101 001011101011101 111010101010101 111110101010101 001000101010100 011000101010100 001010101010101 101010101010001 101000100010101 101000100010101 111111101010011 101001101011111 1010101001010101 101010100010101 001010101010100 101010101010001 111100100011101 001010101010101 100010101010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
in, of, to
Anaphora
while
