This is an analysis of But One Talent by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Ye who yourselves of larger worth esteem
Than common mortals, listen to my dream,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdX eebb ffgg XXbb ddbX ffhh ffee Xibb ggaa jXhh iikk bbjX Xfdd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1110010101 1101010011 11010011001 010001 01010001111 1101110111 1011011111 011101 1011110111 1101101101 1101010111 110111 1101010101 1111010111 0111011101 010101 10110101000 01110111110 1101010111 111101 1011010101 1101110111 1111110101 0101010 1101011101 0101100111 11110001001 011101 11011100101 1101010111 1101011111 110111 1101000110 01001100111 11010101001 010101 1101010111 1111010101 11110011111 110111 1111011101 0101001100 01001111101 110111 1111010111 1011010100 1101011101 010101 1101011101 1101010101 0111011111 1111001 10110001000 1101010101 1101110111 1101111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
of, i, thy, to
Anaphora
the
