This is an analysis of Epilogue by Herman Melville.
_If Luther's day expand to Darwin's year,_
_Shall that exclude the hope--foreclose the fear?_…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aa bXcdbbXefceXe egegXc aahhfh deheh eccXbibciXdX
- Stanza lengths: 2,13,6,6,5,12,
- Metre: 0101010101 1101010101 0111011101 010111010 1 110111011 1 1101110001 1101010100 111001010 1 011100010 1 01101010101 011010100101 1111011101 01010110101 1001110101 11101010111 0101000111 1101001011 0111010101 0101010111 1101110101 01010010101 110100110 1 111101011 1 10110011010 1011101101 11000100010 1111111 101 1011010111 110101010 1 1101010001 1101010111 1000101111 1 011100110 1 111111100100
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, that
Anaphora
that
