This is an analysis of Emancipation by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Fling out your banners, your honors be bringing,
Raise to the ether your paeans of praise.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab acac adXd ebeb afaf ghgh ijij
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11110110010 1001011001 110011110010 1011001011 11001110010 1101001001 11111110010 1001011001 11110110010 1101001011 10010111100 1111111000 11010110110 1101011011 11010110010 1001001001 10011111010 1111001001 0110110010010 1001001101 11110010010 1001101001 11111010110 1111101101 10011010011 1001101101 10110110011 1001001011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

your, to, and

Anaphora

perched, never