Marguerite by John Greenleaf Whittier: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Marguerite that begins with:

MASSACHUSETTS BAY, 1760.
THE robins sang in the orchard, the buds into... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aAbaXcdcXebefghg hiji kghg XXkX cgag XdXd llXl lifi gmm fiXi nofX abkb pXbX ocXc kimi mokX bplX nbjb kgfgXaAfa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,16,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011 010100100100 101 1001010011010 1 10110011011 101 00010101010010 1 1010101001010 111 101110111101 01 010101101010 1 01010101010 011 100101001011 101 1110010010100 111 110100111100 101 01001001010101 11 10111001111 01100 010100101110 100 011111101001 11 11111110010 101 01001010011 111 010010111001 11 110100101101 11 111101001110 1 10101110110 0101 1000011101100 111 001011001011 101 11110101101111 1010010100100 101 110011100010 0111 1001011110 0101 1110100100 1001 011011011111 111 110111100010 11 1101111101 1110 1110111101 1011 1001101011 0101 11101011101 101 110010010110 0111 001001001001 001 11110101001 101 101001011010 100 11100110100 1001 1111011110 100111 111011010110 01 1010111110010 01 001101110110 0111 101010111100 1001 101010010110 101 001011011100 101
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 92
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, her, she are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word she is repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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