This is an analysis of At The Unitarian Festival by Oliver Wendell Holmes.

MARCH 8, 1882
THE waves unbuild the wasting shore;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X ababcdcdXdXd
  • Stanza lengths: 1,12,
  • Metre: 111 01100101 110100101 11111101 111100001 11010111 01010101 010010101 01111101 010101100 01110101 01011111 01011111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 13

Anaphora

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