This is an analysis of The Little Black Boy by William Blake.
My mother bore me in the southern wild,
And I am black, but oh my soul is white!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cccc dcdX eded fefX ccccXfcfc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1101100101 1111111101 1111000101 1111100101 1101110101 1101010101 111101111 1100010101 1101011111 1101110101 11011111101 1001010010 1111110101 1111010101 1111010101 0101110101 1111110101 0101011101 10110011111 11110111100 101101111 1111010101 1101110111 1101011111 1110011111 0101011101 1111110101 1011110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
me, and
Anaphora
and
Anadiplosis
white
