This is an analysis of A Portrait by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Thoughtful in youth, but not austere in age;
Calm, but not cold, and cheerful though a sage;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeffgg
- Stanza lengths: 6,8,
- Metre: 1001110101 1111110101 1101011101 1101110001 1101010011 11011100101 1101010111 0101000101 110110010101 01010010101 1001110101 1101000101 10110111001 1101011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and, his