This is an analysis of The Negro Schools by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer.
Please be silent now, my country, while I fill the speaker's place;
While I point out some abuses that we constantly embrace,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd bbbX eeff ddbb ddgg hhii
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 101011101110101 111110101110001 100110100011111 101011100010101 1010011110101010 0010111001111010 111010111110101 111000101110001 101010101010111 101100100110101 101110101111101 101010101110110 101110101011111 101010100011001 101011100010100 101010100010011 101010101001001 111010100011101 101110101011001 101000101010111 101100101011101 111000111010001 111010101010101 101110101100001 001010101110101 111010101110101 001011101111001 101010110011101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
i, they, to, schools, for
