This is an analysis of A Noontide Lyric by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
THE dinner-bell, the dinner-bell
Is ringing loud and clear;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbaded fghgdbXb ceiedgjg igagfbaXXhcdcajaj
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 01010101 010111 11111111 010111 010011111 010111 11010101 110101 11010101 110101 01011111 111111 11011111 111101 11100101 101001 01010101 110001 01010101 010101 01010101 010101 01010101 111111 10111101 110101 11011101 111101 01111111 110101 11110101 110101 11011111 011111 11011101 111111 11010101 111101 01010101 110001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
and, i, where, his
Anaphora
i, at, the, and, give