This is an analysis of Amy Wentworth by John Greenleaf Whittier.
TO WILLIAM BRADFORD.
As they who watch by sick-beds find relief…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bbXcccddeeffgghfiiddjjkgllffhhccffaajjeeccmmjjiiffnn ggffddgggddhhccooddaaddjjjcj hefe hdad Xhih hjmj XlXl joio mjXj glfl ejhj jXlk cjfj nXmh ajaj dgmg ahnh gddd daha giXi
- Stanza lengths: 1,52,28,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 01010 1111111101 0100001101 1101010010 00110100111 01001110101 11010010111 1011101111 1101111111 1001110101 0010011001 01010100101 1101010101 1101011111 01010101001 1100111101 0101001101 1111010011 1111110101 1111000101 1101110101 0111010011 1101000111 11010111010 11011100001 1101010101 0101110001 1011110111 0101010101 1101110101 1101111101 0101111111 01111110111 0101001101 11010010100 1101110001 1101010101 1101100100 0101010101 1101110001 0101010101 1111010101 11001110101 11010101011 0011010101 1011110101 1101100101 11010100101 1101000101 1111101111 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010011 0011010111 1111110101 1111011101 10111001101 0011110001 1101110101 1001011001 00111001001 0011011101 0101111111 0101010001 01001111101 0111010111 01110110111 1011111101 1111010111 1111110111 1011001101 1101111111 1011110101 1001010001 1011010101 0101010101 0011000101 1111010101 0001110111 01 010101001 111101 01010101 010101 10110111 011101 11010101 010001 01011111 110101 01000101 000111 11110101 110101 11000111 010001 11010111 1100111 11011101 110001 11000101 1100101 11011101 011101 11000101 110101 01010110 010101 11110111 110101 11010101 010101 010101001 110111 11011111 011101 11010101 010101 11010101 110100 01010101 010111 110101001 110101 11010101 0101010 11010101 010101 11000101 010101 10110101 110101 11001111 1101001 10110101 110101 010111001 1111010 01000101 0101010 11010101 010111 01000101 001101 11011111 100011 11010101 110101 11001101 111111 11110101 010110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 22
- Lines: 155
Repeated words/phrases
or, its, and, to
Anaphora
from, no, and, of, , the
Epiphora
Anadiplosis
, her
