This is an analysis of For Class Meeting by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
IT is a pity and a shame--alas! alas! I know it is,
To tread the trodden grapes again, but so it has been,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abacdXd effffgcg hgigebcbXhbhjXka dkdkXcic lXXkggfX cimibnan ifffflml gXhgjlfl XdndfaiaXcgegifhf
- Stanza lengths: 7,8,16,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 0001010101011100 0101010111010 100 01010101010 10101 11011001101 100101 111101001110 11101 1111111111 110101 010111001010 111001 0101110111 10011101 111101011101 1101 110101010100 1101 11111101111 10100 1111010101 110100 11111111110 10101 1111010111 1100101 011111011011 0100 11101001010 10101 0101010111011 100 110111010101 0100 111101111100 11101 110010101110 10101 0101111111 011000 010111010 1010100 110101011101 0100 010111111 100100 11110101110 10100 110101000101 1100 110111011101 1100 1101010111 101100 10101111101 001100 0101110101 011100 111101011111 1100 110101111101 0100 010101111101 0100 0101010011 10011100 011100101110 10100 010101010101 0100 110110001010 10111 110101000010 10111 1111010111 110100 010011111010 10100 1001010010111 1101 11010100011 10101 111001010010 11100 111111111 1011100
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 87
Repeated words/phrases
it, so, of, we, us
Anaphora
we
