This is an analysis of The Past by William Cullen Bryant.
Thou unrelenting Past!
Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc dede fefe ghgh iaia eiei bdbd cXce iaia jcjc kaka ibibXegeg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 110101 11010011101 110111 1111011001 101101 11001010011 1100101 1101011011 110101 1111111001 111111 1011100111 111100 11110010001 100101 01000100101 110101 01111001001 110101 1101111101 011101 1101011101 100101 1101100101 011001 1011000101 110101 1101010001 100001 0101000101 111101 1100110101 1100101 101110001000 011101 0101110101 110111 1111110111 111111 1111110001 110011 11001101001 111101 0101010001 111101 1101010111 1100101 1100110101 111111 0101010101 011101 11010100011 111101 1111010111 101111 1011010011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
to, thy, and
Anaphora
thou, thy, and
