This is an analysis of The Peonage System by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer.
The religious wars of Europe have been numbered with the past,
But a worse thing, bright America with clouds has overcast,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd aaee ffee aagg cchh iiXX jjdX kkff aall
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 001010101010001 101110100011101 101011101110101 111000100011101 1010110101001101 101110100010101 101011101101111 101000101010101 101000101011001 001000011110101 101000100010101 1010010100010101 111110100011111 111010101010111 011000101110001 111000010001001 111110101010111 101011101111111 111110101010101 001010110011101 111010101011011 101010101011101 101010101010101 101010101011101 001111100010001 101000101010101 111011101010101 10100110101111010 101000101110111 101010101010111 101010100010001 101010100011110 111110101010001 101110101110101 101010100010001 111010101110101 101010101010101 101011101110011 100010101110101 111011110010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
of, they, for, and, ', to, his
