This is an analysis of Norumbega Hall by John Greenleaf Whittier.

Not on Penobscot's wooded bank the spires
Of the sought City rose, nor yet beside…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbacddceffegg
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1110010101 0011011101 01010110101 0101010101 0101011111 01001110011 11110010001 11010110101 10110100011 0101010111 01011101001 1101011101 0101000111 1100000111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

and, its

Anaphora

the, its