This is an analysis of La Grisette by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
As Clemence! when I saw thee last
Trip down the Rue de Seine,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbcbc adadefef gfgfhfhf acacfifi ejejbkbk
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 11011111 1101010 11011111 111110 11101101 110101 110101001 011101 01111111 110101 11011101 110011 01001111 1101101 11011111 111101 11111101 0101010 11111101 1100010 11110111 111101 01111101 011111 11010111 111101 11010101 010101 11010101 010101 110101100 010111 01011111 111101 11010101 111111 10110101 111111 11011101 010111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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