This is an analysis of The Old Burying-Ground by John Greenleaf Whittier.
Our vales are sweet with fern and rose,
Our hills are maple-crowned;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc dada abab dede bfbf dcdc bdbd abab cbcb egeg hihi jgjg XdXd bdbd bkbk ldld dgdg baba cgcg dmdmXldld
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11110111 111101 11001101 0101001 01010101 011101 01010101 110101 01010101 111101 01010101 0111001 01010111 0111001 01011101 110101 111101001 111111 01110101 011101 11010001 010101 11010001 110111 100100101 010101 01110101 010101 11110101 111111 01000101 010001 111101010 1101001 10011111 111101 01110111 010101 11110111 010101 110101011 010111 01010101 110001 010111101 011101 110011011 010101 01010101 011111 01010101 10001001 01010100 011101 11011100 010101 010111101 010101 11010101 010101 11011101 010101 11010101 010101 01110101 011111 01110101 010101 10111111 110111 01010101 010001 01010111 111011 01110111 010101 01111101 011111 11011101 110111 11011101 111100 11010101 110001 01110111 0111110 01011101 1101010
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 22
- Lines: 88
Repeated words/phrases
our, with, and, we
Anaphora
our, the, and, her
