This is an analysis of Departed Days by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Yes, dear departed, cherished days,
Could Memory’s hand restore…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababXXXa acbcadXd
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,
- Metre: 11010101 1100101 11011101 011111 11010101 010111 11010101 101101 11010101 110101 11010001 111101 11010101 110101 0111111 110111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 16
