This is an analysis of The Old Man Of The Sea by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
A NIGHTMARE DREAM BY DAYLIGHT
Do you know the Old Man of the Sea, of the Sea?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bcbc adad bebe fbfb acac dada XXXe gggg hchc ijij klkl hchcXbjbj
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 0111111 111011001001 111011011 011101100100 11111111 11111111111 101001001 111011101101 101011011 101001001001 101001001 11011111111 011101111 111101111111 001011001 101011101101 101011010 0010101111111 101011001 101011101101 101011001 111001101101 11011011 11011101101 11101011 101101101101 1101010010 1101111111111 111011011 101001101101 101011001 111011101101 111111001 101001101101 001011111 01001111111 001001011 111101001001 01001011 111001111111 111101001 111101101101 11011101 111011011011 001011011 111111111111 101001011 111011111111 011011011 101011001001 111101001 111011011011 101111011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 53
Repeated words/phrases
you, by, he, in, his, and, ', like, of, i, have
Anaphora
you're, while, and, i
Epiphora
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