This is an analysis of Prejudice by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer.
How strangely blind is prejudice, the Negro's greatest foe!
It never fails to see the wrong but naught of good can know.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eefg hhee iibb jjdd iifg bbaa kkkkXeeii
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11010100010101 01010101110011 11011101010001 01010101100101 11010100110001 010101001010101 01010101010101 01010101110001 01010101010101 11010101010001 01000111110101 01010001111100 0101010110101 01010101010101 01010001110001 01010101010101 01010101011110 11010111010101 01010001110111 01010011010101 00010101010101 01010101010001 11001101010001 01010101010101 01010110110101 01010011010001 11001101010101 11011101110100 11010101010001 11010101110101 01000101110101 01100101110111 01010001110101 001110011010001 01010011010101 11010001110101 11110101010101 11010101011111 11010101010101 11000111010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
to, it, makes
Anaphora
it, the