This is an analysis of Our Limitations by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
WE trust and fear, we question and believe,
From life's dark threads a trembling faith to weave,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbdd eeffgg
- Stanza lengths: 10,6,
- Metre: 1111110101 01110100101 1101110111 11101010001 10110011101 1111010101 1101010101 0101010101 11001110101 01001010101 0101011111 10110011001 01011100101 1011010101 1011001101 1101010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 16
