This is an analysis of A Souvenir by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
YES, lady! I can ne'er forget,
That once in other years we met;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeffgghh aaggiiaa ddhhXXhh jjbbhhkkXccffhhhh
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 11011101 11010011 110010101 010101101 01010101 01010101 10110101 11010101 11110101 11010101 01011111 11110101 11010111 11010111 11011111 01111101 11011011 11110111 01110101 111111001 11011101 11011101 11011101 11110111 110101111 01011101 11111111 111100101 11111110 110000101 11110101 1110100 110111010 111101010 11000101 11110111 110100111 110100001 11110111 010111001 11011101 110101001 11010101 01001101 11110111 01111101 101100111 100100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
its, to, thy
Anaphora
its, thy, i
Epiphora
glance
