This is an analysis of At A Dinner To Admiral Farragut by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
JULY 6, 1865
Now, smiling friends and shipmates all,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X ababcdcd ebeXfXfg fbfbchch eieiebeb fgXXfafX efXfhhhX
- Stanza lengths: 1,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 0111 11011111 1111011 01111100 1100101 11011101 1111010 111100101 1101110 11110101 111101 110101001 011110 110011101 010111 11000101 110101 111101001 110101 01110111 0100111 01110101 010111 010110111 111101 11010101 110101 11010001 010101 111100001 010101 11110101 110111 11110101 110101 01110100 1111000 11010111 011101 110100111 111101 01011111 011101 01100101 0100001 11011111 011111 111100101 0101010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 49
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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