This is an analysis of At The Turn Of The Road by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
THE glory has passed from the goldenrod's plume,
The purple-hued asters still linger in bloom…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd cccc ccbb XXbb bbee ffggXccbb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 01011001001 01011011001 01011001011 01011001101 11001001001 11011001001 11101001011 111001111101 011001101001 001011001101 1010010100101 01111011011 111001001011 11011011101 111011101101 101101101001 110111010100 11011111101 11101011001 101011011001 011101111101 011011101011 00111101111 11001011011 11101011011 11011011011 111001011001 111001001001 11011100111 11111101111 01111001111 111101101001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
i, her, why
Anaphora
the, for, will, i, why
