This is an analysis of The New Wife And The Old by John Greenleaf Whittier.
Dark the halls, and cold the feast,
Gone the bridemaids, gone the priest.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc aaddeeff ggaahh ggiiii jjggjj kkiiaX ddaacX aajjkk ffjjii ccbbfX gghhXX bbffbX eebbee lljjXX XheegX XXXXcc aaiibb aaddgg ggmmll Xaggnn aXeegg
- Stanza lengths: 6,8,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 1011101 10100101 1010101 1010111 1011111 1000101 1011101 1011101 10110101 1011101 1011101 1010111 1011101 10011101 0011001 11100101 0110111 1110101 1010001 1010111 1000101 011110001 1010101 1011100 1011101 1011101 00101010 10101010 1010011 1111101 11101010 01101010 1010111 1010101 1011111 1111101 11100101 1111110 1111111 1111101 1001101 1111111 1111110 1110111 1110101 10010111 1111101 1010101 1100111 0111101 1001101 01100101 101001010 01101010 0011101 1110101 11110101 1111101 1010101 0110001 1110111 1111111 1110101 1010101 1010000 1110111 1011111 1011100 1110111 1111101 1110101 1010101 1011101 1110101 1011111 1111101 1010111 1110111 1111101 1000101 00101110 10001110 100101110 11101110 1110101 11111010 1011101 1010111 10001110 11101010 1011101 1111111 1010111 1011100 111001110 00111110 1111111 1010111 1011111 1111101 1010100 1111101 1011101 1010001 1110001 1010101 101101 1110101 10101001 1011101 1110101 0011111 1010101 1110001 11101110 00111010 1010100 0110101 1010111 1010111 1011101 1010101 101001110 11111010 10011110 11101010 10010101 1010101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 21
- Lines: 128
Repeated words/phrases
and, his, of, me, her, ', he
Anaphora
and
Epiphora
her, '
