This is an analysis of William Francis Bartlett by John Greenleaf Whittier.
Oh, well may Essex sit forlorn
Beside her sea-blown shore;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdXd eaea fgfg hihi fbXb fjfj kkXk acac blbl mdmd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11110101 010111 010100101 000111 11001101 0100101 11001000 110101 01010111 010111 01111101 001101 01111111 111110 001100101 010011 110111101 1100111 01010101 010101 01010101 010101 01110101 011111 010100101 111111 010010101 010111 11101101 110101 10110110 001101 01110101 010111 11011101 110011 11011111 110011 11010101 110101 11010101 110101 01110111 111111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
her, of, to
Anaphora
a, whose
