This is an analysis of The Southern Press by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer.
When a Negro comes in question you may watch the Southern press,
See how bias its opinions, how his ills are given stress,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd aacX eeaa aaff ggaa ddXX XXhh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 101010101110101 111000101011101 100010111011001 101010100010101 001110101110101 101000100010101 101010101010101 101011101010101 001010101011101 001010101010001 101001100011111 0010101010111100 101011111110101 101110101110001 101010100011101 101110101110001 111010101010101 101010101010101 101010101010101 101000101010101 100011100011011 011010101001001 101010100011001 101011101010101 101010100011101 101000100011101 111011101011110 101111101010101 1000001010000100 001010101010001 100000101010101 111010101010101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
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