This is an analysis of For The Window In St. Margaret’s by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
IN MEMORY OF A SON OF ARCHDEACON FARRAR
AFAR he sleeps whose name is graven here,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaaaa
- Stanza lengths: 6,
- Metre: 0100001010001 0111110101 1101010101 1101011111 101111100001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 5
