This is an analysis of The Wife Of Manoah To Her Husband by John Greenleaf Whittier.
Against the sunset's glowing wall
The city towers rise black and tall,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb cXdd eeff bbee ccbb aafX bbgg eeff ffhh eeaa iiXX jjhh Xcaa cXee eebb Xeaa cXkk eXff ccXX ffaa hheX eeff hhcX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 01010101 010101111 11010101 11111001 11010101 11010110 11011101 01010101 11011111 0111110 110100111 10000101 11010101 11010101 11010111 11010101 11010101 11011111 10010101 01011001 11010111 11111000 01000111 11010101 01010111 11010111 11110101 111100101 11110111 011100001 111011010 100101010 01100101 01010101 11011111 10011101 11111101 110000101 11110101 11010101 11010111 11000111 101101011 111011111 01111111 110010001 11010111 10110001 11011110 11010101 10110111 1101010 01110111 010110100 110010101 01010101 11111111 01010101 11010101 11111101 011101010 11010101 110111111 101111101 01010101 001010100 111101001 01101101 01011111 11010100 01111101 110100101 101010101 11000101 100011100 01010101 11110101 11001101 11111101 0101110 11111111 011111001 11110111 11000101 01110111 10110111 11010101 11111101 11110111 101111001 11101101 111110010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 23
- Lines: 92
Repeated words/phrases
their, and, of
Anaphora
no, so
Anadiplosis
reeled
