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;…

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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