This is an analysis of A Loving-Cup Song by Oliver Wendell Holmes.

COME, heap the fagots! Ere we go
Again the cheerful hearth shall glow;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabccbb ddbeebc ccbccbf ddbeebX ccbffba ggbhhbc
  • Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Metre: 11010111 01010111 111010111 11111111 11011101 11010111 110101 11010111 01011001 111001111 11010101 01010110 01011111 010111 11010111 01011101 01010111 11110111 10111101 010011111 0100111 01010111 10110111 11011111 11110111 11001101 1101000111 11010001 11010111 010010101 010100111 10010101 01110101 11010111 1110101 11110001 11010101 110110111 010100111 11111111 11111111 111111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 42

Repeated words/phrases

to, my

Anaphora

they, to, their, in, peep, till