This is an analysis of The African Chief by William Cullen Bryant.
Chained in the market-place he stood,
A man of giant frame,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbaba cdcdefef ghghiiiX ajajfkfX akakhehe aaaakkkX ahaXgegeXjajaikik
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 10010111 010101 010100101 110101 11011101 011101 11001111 110101 10111111 110101 11110101 110101 01011101 1100111 01010101 111001 10010011 110001 01010011 110101 11111101 110111 010100001 111001 111100111 011011 11011101 010101 01110101 110111 11100101 010101 110100111 010101 11111101 010101 10010111 110101 110010101 011101 11110101 111101 10110101 111111 10110111 110101 11110111 110111 11111111 110111 11110101 110111 11010011 0100101 10110001 110101 01110101 110111 11010001 101111 11111101 111101 11110101 01101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 64
Repeated words/phrases
on, and, thy, his
Anaphora
and
