This is an analysis of Martha by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
SEXTON! Martha's dead and gone;
Toll the bell! toll the bell!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aBccB aBXXB ABddB ABeeBXABddB
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,11,
- Metre: 1010111 101101 01011101 01110101 101 10101111 101101 110011101 1011111010 101 1010111 101101 11111111 01010101 101 1010111 101101 11011101 01110101 101 1010111 101101 11010101 11011101 101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 25
Repeated words/phrases
toll, bell