This is an analysis of A Farewell To Agassiz by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
How the mountains talked together,
Looking down upon the weather,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbXXXXXbbaXddeeeeaaffXcaaaaffagaabXhXhXXaeeaabbbbiiddXXcc XeiijjjbbkkAajjjXghXhXbgXcAag
- Stanza lengths: 62,29,
- Metre: 10101010 10101010 11111110 10101010 1111101 0010001 10111110 101011000 1001011000 101111011 10101111 11110000 1010010110 10111110 0101010 111111000 0101110 0101010 0101011 0101011 0101010 0101010 1101010 00101110 10111110 1111010 00111110 0010111 00111010 00101010 00101010 00101110 00101110 00111010 00101110 00101011 001010010 11110010 001000010 11101110 01001110 10101110 01001111 0100010 01001010 1101010 10111011 0111011 0111010 10101010 11100010 10101010 10101010 10100010 11001001 0101010 1101110 1111010 00101010 01010000 1111111 00100010 110111 10100010 11101010 11101111 1111010 111010110 11011110 001010010 11101010 1111111 1101011 1101010 1101110 111101 1011101 1011111 111001010 11111001 10100010 00101000 10101010 1010101 101010010 1010101 101010000 1010010 1101010 10101010 1011101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 91
Repeated words/phrases
and, from, bless, of
Anaphora
the, from, that, new
Epiphora
him, at
