This is an analysis of King’s Chapel by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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Is it a weanling's weakness for the past…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X aba Xcb dcdeec XXfccg ecehhc bgbffg ifibbf hjXbbj kikddi chXaah lelhheXacaffc
- Stanza lengths: 1,3,3,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Metre: 11011010100 0001010101 1001010101 11010101001 1111110101 1001010101 01001010101 1101011101 11010001001 0101111101 0101010101 1111110101 10011100111 10110111010 11010011110 0111010101 10010001001 1101011101 0101000101 1101011101 1101110101 0111110101 1001110111 111110001 11011000101 1100010001 11011101011 1111110111 110111101 0101010111 11001010001 1100010111 0101010111 11010010101 0101010111 11110110111 1101010111 1111110101 1101010101 011000101100 1101110111 0011110101 1101001101 11110100101 1101110001 1001001001 1111111101 1101010101 010100010101 11010111001 1101011001 01010101000 11011111001 1111110101 1101011101 1111111111 0101111111 0111010010001 1011110101 1111010111 11110101001 1111010101 1101110101 1111010101 1111110001 1111111101 1111011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 67
Repeated words/phrases
its, their, and
Anaphora
still, the
