This is an analysis of No Time Like The Old Time by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
THERE is no time like the old time, when you and I were young,
When the buds of April blossomed, and the birds of spring-time sung!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbdd eeff ffccXbbdee
- Stanza lengths: 4,5,4,10,
- Metre: 10111011111101 1010101010100111 0101010110111 110111000101101 10111011111101 111011111010001 00111111001011 1 1011101011011111 101110111111101 1101010110101 10010110010101 110001010101001 101110111110011 111110101110111 111010110010011 111011111011001 111110111110001 10111011110111 11111111110011 1 11111111111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 23
Repeated words/phrases
time, no, like, there, old
Anaphora
there
