This is an analysis of The Minister’s Daughter by John Greenleaf Whittier.
In the minister's morning sermon
He had told of the primal fall,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb defX Xcac ghdh ifif jcgc icjX akik abcX cbgb fbXX debX laca cafa bmam gndn doio Xaja caca blXl
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 001001010 11100101 11110101 101111 11000110 1110101 01001010 11001100 11011100 010111 11001110 0100101 11001010 1110101 11001010 1010101 1001111 101101 01111010 0100101 011010010 0100111 10001111 1100111 10001010 10100001 01001110 0010001 11101010 101111 11011010 1101011 110110010 1101001 101001110 111111 1101010 100111 01101110 111111 11010010 0110011 11111111 1111111 11111010 1110111 111110110 111011 01001010 10100101 1111100 100101 1001110 0100101 111001110 11100101 01111010 11101001 001110110 0100101 11001110 0010101 101001010 1101001 11101010 010101 1110010010 0100111 111001010 0110101 01010010 11001001 01001010 00101001 110010010 110101 10101110 1010111 11111000 1100111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 20
- Lines: 80
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, or, i, his, he
Anaphora
had, and
