This is an analysis of After The Curfew by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
THE Play is over. While the light
Yet lingers in the darkening hall,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef ghgh igXg jaja ieXe ihih eded akak Xgbgb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Metre: 01010101 110001001 11010101 01010101 11010101 010011101 01111111 11011111 11010111 01010111 10010101 11010101 01110111 110000101 10110101 110101001 11011101 01110111 01110111 01010111 01110101 110011111 10100101 110010101 01010101 110101001 1100101100 11111101 01110101 11010111 110010101 01010111 11110101 11011111 11010001 01010111 010010101 11100101 110110101 10101101 11110111 11110101 01011101 11110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 45
Repeated words/phrases
and, we
Anaphora
we
Anadiplosis
alive