This is an analysis of An Evening Thought by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
WRITTEN AT SEA
IF sometimes in the dark blue eye,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a abXbcbcb dedefgfg hihifjfj babakbkb
- Stanza lengths: 1,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 1011 00100111 100111 111100100 110101 11010001 110001 11011111 110101 01100101 110101 110100101 101111 11111111 011111 11110011 110111 11111101 111101 11110110 111111 01111101 111101 01010101 010101 01010101 110101 11010101 011101 1001110010 110101 110101010 011111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 34
Repeated words/phrases
that
Anaphora
or, was
Anadiplosis
gone
