This is an analysis of Homesick In Heaven by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
THE DIVINE VOICE
Go seek thine earth-born sisters,--thus the Voice…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabab cdcd CeXed fgdgd gaga bbbb hihi Cjbjf fhfhf Ci fkeke hkhk Calal fmbmb fhfh Chlhl ikik fkfk bhbkh abab nono
- Stanza lengths: 5,4,5,5,4,4,4,5,5,2,5,4,5,5,4,5,4,4,5,4,4,
- Metre: 0011 1111110101 1101011101 11010101001 1101011100 1101001111 1100111101 1111111101 1111010101 010 1101011101 11010111010 1010010101 01010101001 110 1111010101 1001111101 01110010101 100110011101 1111111101 1111111111 11011010101 0111010101 0101111101 1111010100 110010100111 01010001001 0101110101 1111110101 01001011101 01010101001 010 1101010101 1001011101 1111010101 111101 0110 11011011011101 0101010101 1101101111 1111010111 010 11 01010 11011101 0101110111 1111010111 1101010111 1101110111 1101011111 1111110111 1111000101 010 1111000101 1101011101 1111000101 01010001001 0110 11110101010 1011011101 11011111110 1101011111 1111000101 0111110101 11010010101 1111110101 010 1111110101 1111100111 01011011101 0111010111 11010111101 11010010101 11010010101 1011000101 11011100111 1101011111 10010011101 11011100101 1101110001 0110010111 1001000101 1101010011 1 0111001101 0101110101 0111111101 11001110110 1111011101 0111011111 11110101001 1101010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 21
- Lines: 100
Repeated words/phrases
our, my, i, to
Anaphora
and, to, the, ye
Epiphora
voice
Anadiplosis
home
