This is an analysis of Our Yankee Girls by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
LET greener lands and bluer skies,
If such the wide earth shows,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaababa cbcbdada XeXebaba afafXXXa
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 11011101 010111 01011101 110111 01110101 111001 10110101 111101 01101101 110111 01010101 111111 11011111 110101 11110111 111101 11011101 0101001 11010101 010101 11110101 0100111 01000101 110101 110011101 111101 01111101 010101 01010101 110110 111111010 111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
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