This is an analysis of The River Path by John Greenleaf Whittier.
No bird-song floated down the hill,
The tangled bank below was still;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd ee ff bb dd ee dd ff ff gg ee ee ee ff cc ee hh cX
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Metre: 11110101 01010111 11000101 11000101 01011111 11010001 10110111 01011101 11010101 11011101 01010101 01010101 01010101 00010101 111100101 01010101 01010111 11011101 11110111 11111111 11100111 10111101 11110101 01010101 10111101 01110001 11110111 01110101 11111101 01010101 11110111 010000111 11111111 01010101 10110101 11011111 11010101 11010101 11011111 11010111 101100101 01111110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 21
- Lines: 42
Repeated words/phrases
no, we, and
Anaphora
no, a, with, we
