This is an analysis of Midsummer by Oliver Wendell Holmes.

HERE! sweep these foolish leaves away,
I will not crush my brains to-day!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabX ccdd eeff ggXX hhii jjbbXbbaa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 11110101 10111101 11010101 11011110 11011101 10010101 01010111 01110101 111101001 11011101 01110001 11010101 11110101 111111001 11111100 11011101 11010101 01010101 01110111 11010101 11011101 111111001 110100101 01110101 110010101 010011101 110111001 01010101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

thy

Anaphora

and