This is an analysis of The Truth Suppressed by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer.
Why do people sit in darkness as regards the Negro race?
Why so ignorant are nations of conditions in the case?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbaa cccc ccdd eecc ffcc gghh iiccXiibb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 111010101010101 111001100010001 101011101010001 101000101110001 001110101110101 101000100010001 101010101010101 101010100011001 011110100010101 111011110110101 101110100111101 101010111010101 111010101010111 101100101010101 101010101111101 111000100010111 101010101010001 1110101000101001 101010101010111 101011101010111 1110101001110101 101010100010101 101100101010101 101010101010101 001010101010111 001010101100001 101010101011101 101010100010101 111010100010101 001011111110001 101010101110001 101000101010101 111010100011101 111010101010101 1100010101010101 101010110010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
in, to, and, of
Anaphora
why, he, when