This is an analysis of A Parody On “a Psalm Of Life” by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Life is real, life is earnest,
And the shell is not its pen –…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc cdcd efef gaga
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1011010 1010101 11111100 1110001 10111010 0111101 111101010 1001001 00111010 0011101 01111010 0010001 10101011 1111101 11101011 1110101 11101010 1010001 10111110 1111101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
in, be, hen
