This is an analysis of The Ballad Of The Oysterman by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
IT was a tall young oysterman lived by the river-side,
His shop was just upon the bank, his boat was on the tide;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb aacX ccXX bbdd XXXX dXbb Xaee
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 01011100110101 01110101011101 01000101111111 11010101110001 01010100110101 0101110010001 11010100111001 101011100110110 11010100100111 111110111111111 11000101110101 010101001101010 11110001110101 11110101100111 11010111111111 11110101101101 110101011111110 1110101011100010 11011111110111 110101011100101 11010101111101 11001101110101 11110100110111 01110101111101 011111011101001 11110001100111 111100000010011 11111101111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
i, and, as, he, that, '
Anaphora
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Epiphora
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