This is an analysis of The Last Look by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
W. W. SWAIN
BEHOLD--not him we knew!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bbb ccX ddd aaa eee fff aaa ggg ccc Xgg aaa hhh
- Stanza lengths: 1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Metre: 1001001 011111 0101010111 101111 011101 1011110101 1111100 110101 1011010111 111101 110111 1011000101 101101 011101 1101010101 101101 111101 1111111101 011001 110101 0101110101 100101 110101 1011110111 110101 1010001 10110011101 001101 101110 10110010101 110101 110111 1111110101 101101 111101 11011010001 110111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 37
Anaphora
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