This is an analysis of After The Fire by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
WHILE far along the eastern sky
I saw the flags of Havoc fly,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd aa bbeeaaff XXeecceX ggcchhgg iieeXgbbXeeccaaii
- Stanza lengths: 8,2,8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 11010101 11010101 10010101 01000101 11110101 11010001 11110101 01010101 11010111 11110101 11001101 11110101 111101011 11010101 10011101 11010101 011101001 11010101 11111111 101100010 100101001 11010101 11010101 01110101 111000011 01011101 01110101 11011101 101100101 01011101 010011101 11011111 01110111 11010111 01110111 10010001 10110101 11010101 11110110 11011101 11111101 11011111 11010111 01110101 11110101 11010101 11110101 11111101 11010111 01010111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 50
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