This is an analysis of A Sentiment by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The pledge of Friendship! it is still divine,
Though watery floods have quenched its burning wine;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffbbfXggcXbbhh
- Stanza lengths: 24,
- Metre: 0101000101 110011100101 1101010111 0101010101 0101010101 0101010101 11010001101 1001101001 11010010101 1101010111 10011010101 1001010111 01011100101 1101000101 1011010001 11110100100 1001110111 11010100111 1101000101 1111000101 01110100101 1101011111 101100100111 1101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 24
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