This is an analysis of To E. C. S. by John Greenleaf Whittier.

Poet and friend of poets, if thy glass
Detects no flower in winter's tuft of grass,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabcbccb
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 1011010011 01110010101 1011000111 1111010101 11010010101 1111001101 1111011101 11111100111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

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