This is an analysis of From The Iron Gate by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
AS on the gauzy wings of fancy flying
From some far orb I track our watery sphere,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef cgcg hihi dede cbcX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11010101010 01111111001 1001001001010 010010101001 11010100010 01010011111 11011101010 0101110101 11010101011 1101100111 10110101011 11001110101 111111010010 0101010101 11110101010 0101000101 01011001110 11110101101 01011001110 0101010111 11110101110 1111110101 11010111010 0111010111 11010101010 11110111001 10111001010 01011101010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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