This is an analysis of A Poor Wayfaring Man Of Grief by James Montgomery.
A poor wayfaring Man of grief
Hath often crossed me on my way,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababccbb dedeffgg gfgfhhXX iaiaggdd jdjdddgg dfdfbbkk ililddbb
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 01100101 11011111 11110101 11110101 111100101 100111111 11110001 11111111 11110111 11010111 11001101 11111101 11111101 11110101 11110101 01110011 11110101 10010111 01010101 110101001 11110101 10011111 11010101 11110101 11010101 01010101 11010111 01110011 11111111 11111101 11011111 01010111 11010101 11110111 11011101 01010101 11010111 11110101 101100101 11111101 01111101 01010111 01010111 11011111 11011101 11011111 01111111 11110110 10010011 01010001 01000111 01010111 11111111 01111001 111101000 11110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
he, and, my, his
Anaphora
i, the
