This is an analysis of The Lyre Of Anacreon by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
THE minstrel of the classic lay
Of love and wine who sings…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efXf ghgh ijij eheh dbdb eXej hdhd keke dgdg bXbj
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 01000101 011111 11010101 110101 01011111 010101 11010101 010111 11011111 110101 11010110 010101 11110101 011101 11010111 110001 11000101 010111 11010011 1101001 11010111 111101 11010101 1111001 11010110 110101 11010101 110101 11101111 1101010 01110111 1111001 11010101 1101001 11110111 011101 01010101 110101 01011111 111101 101101001 011101 11110101 1100101 11110101 11010010 11110001 101001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, our, that
Anaphora
of, our, the
