This is an analysis of A Summer Pilgrimage by John Greenleaf Whittier.
To kneel before some saintly shrine,
To breathe the health of airs divine,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eXffccdd ddggaaXc aaaaaadd ddddffff ffaaddhh iijjffjX ggffXjaa XXddhhaa eeggaaXX aaddiiaX cXhhddhh
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 01011101 01010101 11110101 0101100101 11010111 01110111 010100111 01110001 00110111 11010110 11110001 01100101 11111101 010010101 11111101 11011001 11010101 11010101 11010111 01100100 11010101 11011101 11011101 01000111 01110101 01010101 10011101 010100101 11110111 01000101 11010001 11010101 00010101 01010101 01111101 00110111 11010101 01100101 01010111 11110100 110101011 010101011 11010101 11010101 11011111 11110101 10010111 110000100 10110101 010101101 11110101 01011001 11010101 01010100 01110111 101101000 11010011 01011101 11010100 11010111 110101000 110010101 10110101 01000111 010010100 111110000 11100111 11010100 11010101 01110111 11111111 01010001 110100101 11110101 11111111 01011111 11010111 01010111 11010100 01110110 01011101 11011101 11111101 01010001 10110011 111100101 11010111 01011100 11111111 00110100 10110101 01000101 01110101 100010101 11110101 11010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 96
Repeated words/phrases
of, and
Anaphora
to, the, and, o