This is an analysis of Hymn For The Celebration At The Laying Of The Cornerstone Of Harvard Memorial Hall, Cambridge, October 6, 1870 by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
NOT with the anguish of hearts that are breaking
Come we as mourners to weep for our dead;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab acac de de ffff
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,2,2,4,
- Metre: 10010011110 1111001111 10111110010 1001111111 110110010110 1011101001 11110010010 10001011001 11110110110 1111001101 10011110110 1111001011 10110110010 1111011011 10010110010 1001101011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
our, their, may
