This is an analysis of The Flower Of Liberty by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
WHAT flower is this that greets the morn,
Its hues from Heaven so freshly born?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcd cD bbbbcd CD eeffcd CD bbbbcc CD gghhcdXCd
- Stanza lengths: 6,2,6,2,6,2,6,2,9,
- Metre: 110001101 010101101 01011101 01010111 11110110 000100100 00010001 010100100 01010101 01011101 01110101 010010101 11110101 011100100 11010001 010100100 01010111 110010101 011100101 01010101 110100101 01010100 11010001 010100100 01010101 1000010101 010110101 01110101 01011101 111100101 11010001 010100100 110111010 110111110 011100101 010011101 11111111 110100100 11010001 010100100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
of, its, it
Anaphora
the, it
