This is an analysis of The New Exodus by John Greenleaf Whittier.
BY fire and cloud, across the desert sand,
And through the parted waves,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababXaXabcbXbcbcbabadedeebebaaaa
- Stanza lengths: 32,
- Metre: 11011010101 110101 0111001011 110101 1101000100 110111 0010000101 111101 1101010101 110101 1011111101 011111 1101011101 110101 11010100101 110101 1111010100 101111 111000101 110101 1101011101 1100101 10101110101 011101 11010111011 011111 1001000101 010001 1101011101 010111 1101110101 111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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