This is an analysis of The Rock In El Ghor by John Greenleaf Whittier.
Dead Petra in her hill-tomb sleeps,
Her stones of emptiness remain;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gXgh bXbX hcXc hbhb eiei jjjj klkl mfmf eheh nhnh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11000111 01010001 010101001 01010101 00110001 01010111 01010111 01010101 100101001 010010111 01010101 11000101 01010101 010110100 01010101 10010101 11010101 01010101 010101001 01010101 11010101 11110101 10010100 11011111 01110101 01010101 110101011 01010101 11010101 01010101 11010101 01000101 11010101 11110101 110100101 11010101 10010101 110100111 01000101 01010111 11011101 01011101 01010101 11010101 01011101 01110101 110100111 11100101 110101110 011100101 111111010 01100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 52
Repeated words/phrases
her, of, in, we
Anaphora
of, we
Anadiplosis
god
