This is an analysis of From A Bachelor’s Private Journal by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
SWEET Mary, I have never breathed
The love it were in vain to name;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bXbc cdcd eded fbfb ghgh hihi
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11011101 01000101 111101010 11110101 11010101 010111010 11010111 11000101 10110101 01000111 01010101 01011101 110101011 01110101 010010111 1101100101 11010101 11010100 11010101 11110101 11101111 11110001 11010111 00100101 010110101 01110101 011101101 11111111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
may
Anaphora
the
