This is an analysis of An Artist Of The Beautiful by John Greenleaf Whittier.

GEORGE FULLER
Haunted of Beauty, like the marvellous youth…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X abbacddcddddee
  • Stanza lengths: 1,14,
  • Metre: 110 10010101001 1111011101 0111001111 11110100101 01010100100 110101101 1101110001 1001111100 101110111001 1001010001 1101010101 1111010101 0101000101 1111010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 15