This is an analysis of The Voice Of The Negro by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer.
All ye nations, pause a moment! listen to the Negro's voice,
Coming up from all vocations where his life has made a choice!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXX bbcc ccbb ddaa eecc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 111010101000101 101010101011101 100111101110101 001010101011101 011010101110101 011000101110101 0110100101010101 001111101010101 101000101010011 100010101010101 001010101010101 101010101110111 1010101011110101 111001101010101 111010101110101 011010101010101 101111101110001 111010101011001 111010100010001 111001100010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
you'll, if, with, of, or, as, for
Anaphora
if, as
