This is an analysis of Response by John Greenleaf Whittier.
Beside that milestone where the level sun,
Nigh unto setting, sheds his last, low rays…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaXbbccbbbbbb
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0111110101 1101010111 1111010001 1101001110 1111110111 1100111101 11100101001 010111101 1101011001 1111111101 0101001111 0101010101 1111010101 0101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
