This is an analysis of The Lover’s Secret by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
WHAT ailed young Lucius? Art had vainly tried
To guess his ill, and found herself defied.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbddeeffgghhiijjffaajjaakXfXlXhXmmggXkaaaXnnggggbb lljjaaaaaaaaccaabbiihhhXii ggjjgghh llgXccaa hXcc lfaahhddccggkknnooppqqgXhh
- Stanza lengths: 56,26,8,8,4,26,
- Metre: 11011011101 0101110101 0101010101 1001110101 010011100101 01010111001 11010101001 1001110101 11110010101 11001010101 1001001001 11110000101 11110011101 1101111111 1111010101 101001110101 101010101001 01110100101 1101010101 0110010101 1001010011 0111010101 0111010101 1101011101 1111001111 111010101001 1101110111 0101011101 110011100101 0111011101 1011011111 111101101010 1101010111 10010100100 1101010001 11010101000 1111011101 01010101010 1001010101 1101000101 001100100101 01110000101 11011101010 1101010001 11000011111 1101011101 1001011001 010100111010 0101010111 1111011001 0111010101 0101010101 1011110101 1101011011 1001010101 1001110001 1101010101 1101010001 1111011101 1011000101 11001010101 11010100101 0111010001 11110101001 0101010101 1001010101 1111010101 1101011101 1101110100 0111010111 0111010101 1011111101 1001011101 1101010101 0101010101 0101010001 01001010101 1001011001 1011110101 1011010100 01110110101 0101011111 11001011101 0101010101 0101010101 11001010101 0101110001 0101011101 0111010110 1111010111 11111100101 1001010001 1101111101 1011011110 1111011101 01110011111 1101000101 1111111101 10101101001 11010111010 11110000101 1101110111 0111010001 1001010101 1101111101 1101010101 1101010101 11010000101 1101000101 1101010101 0111011101 01010100101 1111110011 1111010101 01110001001 11110100111 11100100101 1111010101 0101011111 1011000101 0111010101 11010010101 1101000101 1111010111 1101010111 1101111101 1101010101 1011010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 129
Repeated words/phrases
they, he, thy, his
Anaphora
they, he, the