This is an analysis of Massachusetts To Virginia by John Greenleaf Whittier.
The blast from Freedom's Northern hills, upon its Southern way,
Bears greeting to Virginia from Massachusetts Bay:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd aadd eeff gghh aaff bbXX iiff bbgg ccbb aaff ddgg iiff hhjj ffbb aaee aakk ffii ggXX aabb ggii ffgX ffffXffii
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 01010101010101 1100010010101 11010100110101 110101011101001 1101110011111 01110100100101 10011011011101 01010101111111 1111010110111 11010101110111 111111100010101 11001101010101 11011101011101 11010101011111 11111101110111 01010101011011 01111101111101 1101011011100001 11011101110111 11010101011101 1101010110101 110010101010101 11110100010101 0101001010110101 0111011010001 001101001101001 110010101110111 01010101010011 1101010010111 10110100100111 0111110101101 1101010011101 11110100100101 1101110110101 1101110011101 01010101011101 11111100110101 01000101000101 11010101111111 11110101010111 11010111110111 1111110101101 111110101110001 1101010111011 111111001110111 01010101110101 110001010110111 01000101010101 11110100010101 1101010110101 110011111010101 010010101110101 1011010100101 10101101010101 0010010011101 11110100111111 01011001010110 111101010100101 010011011101001 01110101100111 1101011110101 0101011010101 11011001010101 10010111010101 0101011010111 0101010111101 1011010010101 11011111010101 01011101010101 010101001100 01010100010101 010101010101001 0111010110101 010111010101001 01100101010101 110100101011100 1101011100111 110101001110101 01010100110101 1010100101101011 01010100011110 110101010101010 010100111101011 1100011110101 1001010010111 01001111101111 1111010110111 110111111100110 11111111111101 010100101011101 1110110010111 00110100111101 111111100111110 110101000100010 1110110110111 1100011110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 24
- Lines: 96
Repeated words/phrases
nor, of, our, and, they, their, your, her, that, to, we, no, in, for
Anaphora
the, how, a, and, no
