This is an analysis of Song. For A Temperance Dinner by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
For a Temperance dinner to which ladies were
Invited (new York Mercantile library Association,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaX Xabb cXdd ccaa XeddXccee
- Stanza lengths: 3,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 101001001100 0101110111001010 0101 01011011110 001010001101 101001001001 11001001101 01011001111 111101101011 11011011111 111011101001 01101111011 01001001011 01101101011 101001101001 11001011001 111001001001 11101001001 101001001111 101101001011 11101111111 001011001011 00100010001101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
and, his, of
Anaphora
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