This is an analysis of My Aunt by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
My aunt! my dear unmarried aunt!
Long years have o’er her flown;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXbXbXb acdcbded Xededbfb fdbdgege bhXhhbXb Xfefbcec
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 11110101 101101 11110101 110101 11011011 110111 01010101 110101 11110101 010111 10111101 0100111 11110101 111111 11010111 111101 010000101 010101 11110101 0101010 11000101 1100111 100101010 110101 11110101 010111 11011101 010111 11011101 110101 11010101 010101 11110111 110101 11111101 110101 11110111 110001 11010101 0101001 011100110 110101 100100101 010101 10110100 1101101 011110001 110101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
her, she, they, nor
Anaphora
they
