This is an analysis of Prelude To A Volume Printed In Raised Letters For The Blind by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
DEAR friends, left darkling in the long eclipse
That veils the noonday,--you whose finger-tips…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeddffgghhXdbbiibb
- Stanza lengths: 8,18,
- Metre: 1111000101 1101011101 0100110111 11110010101 0101111101 0101010111 0101010111 11110101010 1111111111 1101110101 0111111101 1111111101 0101010101 1101110100 1101011111 1101111111 1101010101 1100110101 1011110110 1101110101 1001011101 0101010101 0101010101 0111010111 1101010101 01010101101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 26
Repeated words/phrases
we, to
Anaphora
the
