This is an analysis of The Dorchester Giant by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
THERE was a giant in time of old,
A mighty one was he;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaab bcddc bdXed fXggX gbggX dcbbc ghiih hagga fdhhd bbddbXdaeea
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Metre: 110100101 010111 110111101 1110100101 111101 0100010101 101001001 010011011 101100101 111101 101010101 1100001 01011010110 111011101 110101 1110010101 1110111 11100101101 111101101 111111100 1010110111 1100101 0111101101 1110011111 10111110 11111101 1110101 1101011001 111110101 1110101 110010111 0001101 110011111 011010111 111111 11111101 0110101 111001001 1011011001 101101 1101001101 1101001 11101011101 110100101 1101111 101101101 1101101 010110101 1100101001 110101 10110101 111101 010010101 111110101 1110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 57
Repeated words/phrases
he, of, your, and, as, they, over
Anaphora
they, and
Anadiplosis
he
