This is an analysis of Our Autocrat by John Greenleaf Whittier.
His laurels fresh from song and lay,
Romance, art, science, rich in all,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded bebe fgfg ahah gcgc eheh gbgbXhfhf
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 01010111 01110101 11011111 1101000100 11010111 01010101 01010111 01100111 01010100 01110101 11011100 01010100 10010101 11110101 01110101 11010100 010010101 01010101 01000101 110100001 11110111 01110101 01110111 01010101 01010101 01111101 01011101 11010101 11110111 01011101 11010100 010010101 111000101 01011110 01011101 01111111 01110101 010101010 01011111 11010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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