This is an analysis of A Parting Health by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
TO J. L. MOTLEY
YES, we knew we must lose him,--though friendship may claim…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X aabb ccdd aaee fadd gfaa hhbb ggii
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 01110 111111111011 01011001001 11011011111 1001001101011 101011001101 1011110010001 101011001101 11001001011 11011011001 1110011111011 101001001101 11011101011 0011010010010 11011001011 111001111001 111011001001 111011011101 01111001011 111001011111 111011111001 01101101101 110110101011 01011101101 00111001101 11011001111 101101001011 01101001111 11111111001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
we, as, that, his, of
Anaphora
as, there