This is an analysis of De Sauty by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
AN ELECTRO-CHEMICAL ECLOGUE
The first messages received through the submarine cable…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X aXX b caXcb XXcd aXde XffX bccXg aheX aXhd cXfX ibbX cccf gXgX hXiXX ddXX
- Stanza lengths: 1,3,1,5,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,
- Metre: 101010010 01100011010110 011101001000100100 1101010 01011 010 111010110010 111010101011 100100101010 101010 010010100110 10111010010 101110101010 111010 111010110010 101010101110 111010101111 100110 111010001010 101010001010 1010010101010 111010 11 101110101010 110001011110 1001101111011 111010 101010101010 1010100010010 100010111011 101110 101010101010 1010010101100 1001101010010 100010 101010101110 111110111110 101010110010 111010 0010101010010 101110001010 101110101010 011010 101010101010 101010101110 100011001110 001010 101000101010 1001010101000 111110101010 111010 101010100010 111110111100 1111101 10010 111010 101010001110 101010110110 110110101111 111010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 16
- Lines: 61
Repeated words/phrases
faded
Anaphora
professor
