This is an analysis of His Excellency General Washington by Phillis Wheatley.
Celestial choir! enthron'd in realms of light,
Columbia's scenes of glorious toils I write.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaa ddbb eeXbddccddaaffdd ffeebbffaaXffcc
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,16,15,
- Metre: 010101000101 010010100111 1101010101 1101001001 1101010101 1101110101 10110100101 0101010101 0101110101 1011010101 0101010001 10001110101 1101011101 1101010101 1110101110 10001010101 0101010111 0101010101 1111010101 1111010101 0101110101 1101010101 1101001101 0111000101 1101110101 0111001101 1111011101 110011100101 11001010101 110100100101 1111010101 01010100101 1101010101 10110100101 10010010101 1101010101 11010001001 01110101011 0111010111 1101010101 0101010111 0110010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 42
Repeated words/phrases
in, thy