This is an analysis of Iris, Her Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
I PRAY thee by the soul of her that bore thee,
By thine own sister's spirit I implore thee,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb Xcc ddd eeX ccc bbb ddd eXe Xff ccc bbb ggg eXe eee aaaXccc
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Metre: 11110100111 11110101011 11000111011 11011100100 11010101010 10011111010 111101000100 11011101010 10011111010 11110101010 11010111010 11011101010 11111101010 11010101010 11110100010 110110111010 01010100010 101100111010 10011101110 1011001110010 101101001110 11111101010 11111101010 11111111010 11111101010 11010111010 010011101110 011111111100 10110111011 11010101011 11010111110 10010111010 111000001010 11001101010 100101100010 10110101010 101000011010 11010101010 11011001010 00110101010 01011101000 01010111010 00110001010 11011101110 11010101110 11010111011 100110101111 10010101011 10111001010 100111010010 111101000110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 17
- Lines: 51
Repeated words/phrases
thee, her, and
Anaphora
and
Epiphora
thee, her, for
