This is an analysis of At A Dinner To General Grant by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
JULY 31, 1865
WHEN treason first began the strife…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X ababcdcd efefghgh iiijkdkd dfdffjfj cgcgdXdd bgbgjhjh fcfcldld fhfhejej ciXifdfd
- Stanza lengths: 1,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 0111 11010101 1100111 01010101 110101 01110111 011111 010100111 110101 11010111 110101 11010101 010111 11011101 110111 11001101 010111 11010101 110101 11010111 1101011 11010101 1101101 110111001 110101 10111101 110101 10010111 1101111 11010101 111101 11110111 0100111 110101101 010101 11011101 110101 10010101 010101 01010101 111101 01010101 1110000 01010011 010101 01010111 110101 11010111 0111001 11011101 110101 01010101 0101001 01000101 110101 11010001 010101 111000101 110111 010010101 010101 1101100101 11101010 01010101 110111 10011101 011101 01011110 1101001 01111111 111101 11100101 110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 73
Repeated words/phrases
and, as, vain, to, his
Anaphora
from, vain
