This is an analysis of At A Meeting Of Friends by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
AUGUST 29, 1859
I REMEMBER--why, yes! God bless me! and was it so long ago?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X aabb cccc ddXX eeff gggX hhii fjjcc bbgg iXgg iiii kkgg
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1011 1010111111101101 11010010111111 0110010111101 1101010110101 11111100101111 011110101010111 11011100110110 101101010010101 11001010110101 11001010111011 1101010101110101 1110110110101 11111110110101 01110010111101 11001010110111 11111010011111 110011101100111 110011101100101 11011101100111 11111101011010 1111010111101 111110101101101 10001011111101 110101100101101 110011101101 101 01001110111101 11001010110111 1111110010111 11101010011111 01011010110101 11101010010101 010010100101100 11011110110111 111011010110111 11010010110100 11111010111101 1111110110101 1001010111101 1001110100101 1001010100101 11101011110111 1111010110111 10011101100101 010010101100101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 46
Repeated words/phrases
i, and, forty, of, that, at, say
Anaphora
i, but
