This is an analysis of A Toast To Wilkie Collins by Oliver Wendell Holmes.

FEBRUARY 16, 1874
THE painter's and the poet's fame…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X aabb ccdd eeffXddee
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 101011 01010101 111010101 01110101 11011101 11010101 01011101 11010101 11010101 111101001 01010001 11011101 01010101 11010111 11010111 11011101 10110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 17