This is an analysis of The Carpenter by George MacDonald.
O Lord, at Joseph's humble bench
Thy hands did handle saw and plane;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cXcX XcXc dcdc dddd ebebXeded
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11110101 11010111 11010111 010111001 11111101 01111111 11011101 0100101101 11101101 01010011 11110101 11110111 11110111 111101001 11111101 11100100 11010101 10111101 10110111 11011101 11111111 01110111 11010001 11010001 11000101 11001011 10110111 01011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
and, thou, thy, or
Anaphora
thy
