This is an analysis of Songs In Many Keys by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
1849-1861
THE piping of our slender, peaceful reeds…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X abbaababcddccd aaaaaaaaeffeef
- Stanza lengths: 1,14,14,
- Metre: 11 0100110101 10100110101 1011110101 1110010101 10001011101 01001010001 01001010101 1101010101 1111111101 11110100101 11001010101 11001010111 01001010101 01001011111 11011011111 0110110101 1101110101 1111000101 0101001111 1001010101 10010011101 11001010001 1011010111 1101011111 1011001111 1111010101 1100111101 1011110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 29
