This is an analysis of An Impromptu - Ii by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
AT THE WALCKER DINNER UPON THE
COMPLETION OF THE GREAT ORGAN…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXX aabXXXXXXbX
- Stanza lengths: 3,11,
- Metre: 101010010 01000110 11010101 1111010110101 1101010111101 1111110110101 1101010011101 11111110000101 11110101111110 11011101110111 1101111110001 11111010110111 11110100111010101101101001 11111100101110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
', you, of, and
Epiphora
'
Anadiplosis
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