This is an analysis of The Crisis by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
A man of low degree was sore oppressed,
Fate held him under iron-handed sway,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababaa cXcbdd aaaaee ffffXX
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 0101011101 1111010101 1101111101 1111010011 1110011100 11001010101 1101011101 1101111100 1101000101 1101110001 1101011101 0101111101 1101111101 1111110101 1111011111 0111110111 1111001101 01110000011 1101111101 1101110111 1001010101 1101110101 11110011001 11110111100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
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