This is an analysis of The Proclamation by John Greenleaf Whittier.
SAINT PATRICK, slave to Milcho of the herds
Of Ballymena, wakened with these words:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabXccaaddeebbfXffddffgghhiicchh
- Stanza lengths: 32,
- Metre: 1101010001 01000100011 1011 1001010101 11010111010 01010001010 11001 01010001101 1101111101 1001010001 1101 00010010001 1101000101 1101010101 1111 1001111101 1111101111 01110010101 1101 0101111101 1111010011 10111101111 1101 1011001101 0111110101 0101110001 00101 1101010101 1111110101 0101100101 1111 11010111001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
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