This is an analysis of A Poem Served To Order by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
PHI BETA KAPPA, JUNE 26, 1873
THE Caliph ordered up his cook,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X aabccX ccbccb aabddb ccXXaX ccXXXX ddeddX ccebbe ffbggX ccfhhX ffdhhd bbhbbh ffbiib
- Stanza lengths: 1,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 11010111 01010101 11000101 1111110 11011111 10110101 1111010 1100100101 10011101 1111111 1010111 01010101 1111011 110111111 11010101 0101010 11010101 01110011 1100010 11010101 01010111 1101010 11001110 11110101 1111010 10010101 11100111 11110001 10111101 11011101 1001100 10111101 11010111 0101110 11011111 11010111 1111110 01010101 11110111 1111010 111101101 01000101 1101010 11010101 11010111 1011010 01010101 11001011 1111010 11010101 010010101 0101010 11111101 110101001 1111000 10111011 01010011 1100010 111101001 11011111 1101010 11011101 11010101 1101111 11011101 11010111 1101111 11111101 11101001 0101111 11110111 111111111 1111010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 74
Repeated words/phrases
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