This is an analysis of Valuation by John Greenleaf Whittier.
THE old Squire said, as he stood by his gate,
And his neighbor, the Deacon, went by,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cdcX XedXeX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,6,
- Metre: 0111111101 101001011 1101111101 111011011 11101101101 111001001 101001011111 01011011 11111101011 111110110 01111111101 1010111110 110101001 101 101101001 1111010110 11 1011010010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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