This is an analysis of What Of The Day by John Greenleaf Whittier.
A SOUND of tumult troubles all the air,
Like the low thunders of a sultry sky…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbccXdaccbbbXececcdXdafffac
- Stanza lengths: 30,
- Metre: 0101010101 1011000101 1101011101 0111010111 1001010101 01010001010 010010100010 10010101010 1001010111 0101010101 1011011001 11100111110 0101010111 0101110110 1011000101 1111001100 1111111101 110100101111 1011011101 1111110001 1101010101 1101010001 1101010110 1001001011 1111010101 1001010101 1110010101 1101010101 1101010101 10101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
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