This is an analysis of The Old Man Dreams by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
OH for one hour of youthful joy!
Give back my twentieth spring!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eeee fgfg hahX XXgX diDi gjgX kjkX diDX Xhjhj
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Metre: 111100101 11110001 11010111 110111 10010101 010101 11110101 110101 11011111 010101 11110101 011111 110010101 110101 1011111001 110111 100110011 011101 10110101 0101110 101010100 011101 11110101 11110100 010101001 110111 01100101 100101 100110101 010101 01011111 0101010 10101100101 110101 101110101 1111110 01010101 1000101 01100101 1001010 11111101 011001 11111101 010111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 46
Anaphora
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