This is an analysis of In Memory Of Charles Wentworth Upham, Jr. by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
HE was all sunshine; in his face
The very soul of sweetness shone;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd abab aeae fafa cece bbbX gbgb hXhX bibi
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11111001 01010101 101100001 11111111 10110111 001011101 11110101 11010101 10001101 110000101 11011011 110100101 11011111 11110111 110101001 11011101 11010111 11010111 01011111 100010101 11011011 11011101 11010101 01010101 11111101 110011111 111001101 010101100 11011111 11110101 11010111 11010111 111111011 10010111 10010101 11010101 11010111 11111101 11110101 10011111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
that, my, '
Anaphora
that, my
