This is an analysis of At A Birthday Festival by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
TO J. R. LOWELL
WE will not speak of years to-night,--…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bcbc dddd bebe fgfg adad bhbh X
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Metre: 01110 10110001 111001 11010111 110101 10110101 010111 01011101 110011 11111111 010101 01101101 1100101 01110101 111101 1101001001 1111001 100100101 100101 11010101 010101 11010101 011101 11110101 110101 101011
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 26
Repeated words/phrases
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