This is an analysis of Our Indian Summer by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
You 'll believe me, dear boys, 't is a pleasure to rise,
With a welcome like this in your darling old eyes;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd aXee bbaa ccff ggXX hhaaXggdd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11011111001001 001010011011 01011101011 111011000111 011101011001 11111101011 011011101101 011101011011 1110001011001 101111011011 101101111011 01011111001 111011011001 11111111001 11001101011 111111001101 01001011011 101111101011 01011111001 101111101001 11011011011 11011011101 11111011111 001001101001 11101111011 001101111011 11101101101 111101111011 01011001111 11101011001 111011101001 111011111011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
to, my, as, and, we, our
