This is an analysis of A Good Time Going! by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
BRAVE singer of the coming time,
Sweet minstrel of the joyous present,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcccc cdcdeaXa cbcbfcfc ebebgggX hXhcbcbc ididjdjd gkgkcccc gjgjflfl
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 11000101 110001001 10010101 0101010010 01011111 110101010 11001111 010101010 101111101 0101010010 01011111 010101010 01010001 0101010101 01110111 0100111011 01010101 110101010 01010101 1010101010 11110101 11001001110 11010101 111111010 110010101 110101010 11010101 110101010 11000111 110001110 11010101 111111110 01110101 111101100 011101011 010111010 11110001 110011010 11011101 010101010 10010101 011101010 01010101 010111010 010111001 1101000010 11110101 110101110 01110111 110101111 11010011 100111011 1000100101 0100101010 01011101 010101010 01010101 1010101110 11110101 010101110 01111101 010101110 11011111 110111010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 64
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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