This is an analysis of Programme by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
READER--gentle--if so be
Such still live, and live for me,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb cccc Xbaa ddcc eecc aaff ccgg eedd gggg hhii Xjff eeii iikk aacc bbbb llmm jjiiXffii
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1010010 1111111 0011001 1110101 1110101 0111111 1011101 10100111 1110111 1010101 1110101 1110101 1000101 1010101 10110011 0011101 1110111 1010111 1110111 1010111 1010101 1110001 1110101 1111111 1111111 1001101 1000101 1110101 1010101 10010101 0010101 1011101 1010111 1010100 1110111 1111101 1011111 1110101 1011101 10010111 1110111 1010111 1110101 1110101 1010001 1110101 11011001 11011100 1110101 1110101 1110111 101111011 1110101 1111111 0011101 1010011 1110101 0111111 1110111 1010111 10010101 10010101 10010101 10010101 10010101 10010101 10010101 1010101 1111101 1111111 1011101 100001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 18
- Lines: 72
Repeated words/phrases
not, for, every, its, us
Anaphora
songs, not, here, would, every
