This is an analysis of To Pennsylvania by John Greenleaf Whittier.

O STATE prayer-founded! never hung
Such choice upon a people's tongue,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabccbbbdeedffghhgiibjjbkkadXa
  • Stanza lengths: 30,
  • Metre: 11110101 11010101 1100111 11111101 111101001 110001 01110001 01000101 011101 11000101 01001101 001101 110101010 010111010 010101 01110111 00111100 011101 11110101 10010001 100101 01111101 11011101 110101 11001101 011001001 110111 11010100 11000100 110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

to, or

Anaphora

such, to, and