This is an analysis of The Old Cruiser by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
HERE 's the old cruiser, 'Twenty-nine,
Forty times she 's crossed the line;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff gghh ggaa iiff eejX ggjX kkii kkaa cccc aabX ccbb eekk llkk ddaa iimm aaaX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 110110101 10111101 1111111 11111011 000101101 1111111100 100101111 10111011 10101001 11110101 10011101 10100101 10010101 100111101 1111111 10011101 1110111 1110111 10011101 1011101 101111 11010101 11010101 01101001 11101101 110101101 110101101 11111111 10101101 100101101 110011101 1011100101 111101111 011101101 110101011 1100100101 100101001 110110101 100101101 101101101 11101101 10100101 1111111 11101111 11111111 10110011 11011011 1110111 10010101 10110101 1110111 101101111 1111111 10111111 1111011 100101111 1111111 11101101 0111111 101111101 1011111 10101101 10101101 11111101 100100111 101100101 1111101 110010111 101101111 10101110 1011101 1111111111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 18
- Lines: 72
Repeated words/phrases
and, some, you, him
Anaphora
some