This is an analysis of The Dead Ship Of Harpswell by John Greenleaf Whittier.
What flecks the outer gray beyond
The sundown's golden trail?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXbcded cfXffXga gdfdhigi cfifjaaa cdhdiaca hfcfbbbb dbkXgkgk cfjfhfdf efgfalil XXdXccXaX
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,9,
- Metre: 11010101 010101 01100111 110101 11110111 111101 01011101 010101 01110101 010101 01110111 110101 110011101 1100110 11110111 010101 110101001 110111 11011101 110101 11110101 110111 11110111 1100101 11010101 111101 11100101 010101 11011101 011111 11010101 1101001 11010101 1000110 11110101 110101 11011101 110101 11110111 010111 011010101 010100 01100111 0111001 01010111 010101 11110101 110101 11110101 111101 110111001 110010 11011101 110101 11010111 0100111 01110101 010101 01011101 1101001 01100101 010101 11110101 111101 11111101 111111 11010111 010101 11110111 110101 11010101 110101 11011111 01111101 01010101 11010101 11010001 11110111 0101011101 1101001 111111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 82
Repeated words/phrases
from, no, of, in, and
Anaphora
the, from, she, in
Anadiplosis
in
