This is an analysis of At Port Royal by John Greenleaf Whittier.
The tent-lights glimmer on the land,
The ship-lights on the sea;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaX Xbab cbcb dddd XeXe eeee cdcd bdbdXbdbd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 01110101 011101 01110101 11111 11110110 101101 11110111 110111 11010101 010101 01110101 010101 010010101 111101 01010111 010101 010111010 110101 11110111 110101 01010111 011111 01010101 010101 01011101 110101 11010111 1101101 01110011 110101 01000101 010101 010111001 0101001 100010101 110101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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