This is an analysis of The Crum Appointment by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer.
You, no doubt, have heard the story told of Charleston by the sea,
How they persecute a Negro when a man he tries to be,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdX aXee XXcc ffeX ddee ggee eebXXbbbb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1111101010100101 111010101011100 101000101010101 111010101010001 101010100011001 101010100010101 101000101011100 111010100010001 001010101110101 101111101110101 101000101010001 101000101010011 001010101010101 001010101010101 101010101011101 111010101011101 111010101110111 101000111011111 101011101010111 0010111110101100 101011101010101 101010101010001 101000101010101 101010101010001 111110101010101 101011101011111 101010101010101 111110101010111 101011111010011 011110101010111 1000100101110111 101001111110001 110000101010101 1110101010100101 111000101110001 100011101110101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
of, to, and, they, no
Anaphora
to, 'twas, they
