This is an analysis of A Poem. Dedication Of The Pittsfield Cemetery by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
ANGEL of Death! extend thy silent reign!
Stretch thy dark sceptre o’er this new domain…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaa bbXeccffgghhbbiiddjjkkggdd llaaeecckkeemm bbeegnaaeeXeeeooeeaaeeccppooeeaabbbbggqqbb iiggeell aaeeggrrddnngg eebbXqqll
- Stanza lengths: 10,26,14,42,8,14,9,
- Metre: 1001011101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010001 1101110101 10110010101 11010101001 00111100111 1101001101 1111010111 1001010101 0111010001 0111010101 01010010101 1101010101 0101110101 10111101001 10011101001 1101111101 1011010111 01011100101 0101000101 0111010101 0110010101 0111010101 0101110101 01011111001 0011000101 11010001001 0101010101 0111010101 1101010101 11011101001 00110010101 1101011111 01110001001 1101010101 0111010101 1111010101 0101110101 1111010101 0101110101 11010100101 1011010101 0011010101 0011010101 0011010101 1100101101001 0101011001 11110100101 1001011101 01001011111 10010110111 1011011101 10110101001 11010111010 100101011 1011100101 10111101001 1011110101 1001110101 1110010001 1011010101 10110001001 1001110101 01110010001 1011110111 1111010101 1011010101 1101111101 1101010101 1011110101 1011010101 010011101001 1001011101 10110101001 11011101001 0011111101 11010100101 110010100101 10010100101 1001010101 10110100111 1111100101 0011001101 0011010101 11110010101 1111011101 1001011001 1111011101 1111010101 1111010101 1001010101 1111010101 00110110101 1111000101 0011010101 11010101001 0011111101 1101111101 1011010101 0101010101 1001101101 1111110101 1011010101 1111010111 0101110101 1011110101 0101110101 1111010101 01010100010 01011100110 1001011111 10110101001 01111100101 10111000111 1111010101 11010101001 1011000101 1001010101 1011010101 1011010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 122
Repeated words/phrases
its, in, s, their, every, to, our, that
Anaphora
the, in
