This is an analysis of Worship by John Greenleaf Whittier.
The Pagan's myths through marble lips are spoken,
And ghosts of old Beliefs still flit and moan…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc dede Xfgf ghgh dbdb ihih dbdb ajaj gkgk ajaj XcXc dhdh lXlc Xjdj
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 01011101110 1101011111 11110101110 10111011101 11110011110 0100111011 010100001010 1011110111 11010111010 1011010101 010101100010 101010001001 01110111000 11001110101 01110111010 1110010111 11110101010 0111011001 110110011010 1111000101 100101001010 01110100111 10011101010 00110000101 110111011010 0100100100101 100101100110 1101010101 11010010010 1001010101 101100011110 0101010101 11110011010 1011010101 01100100110 0101010001 11110111010 0101010101 110011101010 1011010111 11110111010 01001011101 01011101010 1101010100 10110101110 1110010111 10110101011 0101011111 11011011110 1101010101 01010001110 1101110101 100100101010 011101111 11011111010 1101010101 11110101010 01110100111 111101010010 1001010101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 15
- Lines: 60
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, each, to
Anaphora
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