This is an analysis of The Broomstick Train; Or, The Return Of The Witches by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
LOOK out! Look out, boys! Clear the track!
The witches are here! They've all come back!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeccccffgg hheeddbb iiddeeiXaajjiiggcc ffggkkddXelliibbeX ggllmX eeggnnfXXgkkkkeeccoopq ddiimmbbbbiXXiii ggiiffddeX ccffffkkXX ddggffoopqdd ffrreeXff
- Stanza lengths: 8,10,8,18,18,6,22,16,10,10,12,9,
- Metre: 11111101 010111111 11011111 110110101 11001111011 111101101 111101101 111011111 010010011 1110100101 1110101001 101110101 1110011111 110011101 110100101 0101101101 111111101 1101010001 0101011001 110100101 011101101 101111101 111111101 11110101 10010111 100101111 10111111 011101101 10011101 101100101 011111101 011110101 10100101 111011000 1011100101 110100111 10100111 111001001 1100111001 111011101 010100101 0010100101 010101111 111101111 11101011 100100111 100100101 110101101 11010101 100100101 110111101 10010101 111010011 1101100101 01011001011 1110100101 11101011001 1010101101 1110110111 1100100101 11111111 11001101111 111100100 11100000101 110111011 10100110101 111111111 001011101 010101111 011101111 111100101 111101101 1100011111 110100101 111110101 111111111 1101101010 111110101 101010111 111110111 1111101111 111101111 1111011101 11011011011 1100101111 011110101 1111101111 1100110111 11101010 110111111 110010101 111110111 110111001 1010101101 010100101 101110111 1110100111 1111101101 110110101 11001101001 0111001001 0110101101 0101001110 1010101111 1111101101 10101011001 110100101 1010110101 1111111010 0101001001 010110101 010100101 1111011011 1110101101 111010101 1011101101 110111101 0100110111 110100111 0100100101 11111111 111011101 010110101 111101111 111111101 101011101 1111001111 01111110 1100110101 011100101 101010011 1010110101 1010010101 111101101 11011110 111110111 111110111 1110100101 101110101 111101111 010011001 11110111 110101101 11011111 0101111101 10100110111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 146
Repeated words/phrases
they, lie, to, of, you, and
Anaphora
of, to, and, how
Anadiplosis
all
