This is an analysis of Extracts From A Medical Poem. The Stability Of Science by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
THE feeble sea-birds, blinded in the storms,
On some tall lighthouse dash their little forms,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbaacc aadd aaeeaaeeaaXXeeaaaa
- Stanza lengths: 10,4,18,
- Metre: 0101110001 1111111101 1011010111 1101010111 1011000101 1111000101 1011010101 1011001101 11110010101 0111010101 1111110001 011111101 1011011101 1011110101 1101010101 01001010100 1101010101 1011010101 01010100111 1001010001 11001010101 11001011101 0101010101 0101010101 01111101010 1011110001 1111110101 11010010101 1111011101 0111001001 1111011111 11001011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
its, that
Anaphora
the
