This is an analysis of Upon My Son Samuel His Goeing For England, Novem. 6, 1657. by Anne Bradstreet.

Thou mighty God of Sea and Land,
I here resigne into thy hand…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbccdXeeffXXddbb
  • Stanza lengths: 20,
  • Metre: 11010111 11100011 0101010010 011111010 11111111 11011111 11111111 11111101 11111101 110101101 01110111 01111111 10111101 11011101 11110111 1101101110 01011101 10111101 10111111 11010001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

of, him, me

Anaphora

the