This is an analysis of The Greek Boy by William Cullen Bryant.
Gone are the glorious Greeks of old,
Glorious in mien and mind;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbcc dedeccff gdgdddXX hghgiiaa
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 110100101 1000111 11110001 110101 011100101 01010001 11001101 11010101 110101001 110101 101000101 1101101 11011101 110010101 11010101 1110101 11110101 1100101 01111101 011111 11110111 11110111 10010100 11001101 10110111 110101 11110101 0010001 11010111 01010111 01011111 01010001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
thy
Anaphora
their, her
Anadiplosis
broke