This is an analysis of The Old Player by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
THE curtain rose; in thunders long and loud
The galleries rung; the veteran actor bowed.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeffccaagghhddgggg cciiaajjhhaaggkkllaaiiii kkffddhhaaiiffaaggkkddlleeggggjj aaeeggggddXffggeeddkkkkggggggeegghhkkll
- Stanza lengths: 8,18,24,32,39,
- Metre: 0101010111 010010100101 0101011001 1101010101 1101010101 11001110111 1011010101 1101011101 1101110111 1101110111 1011010101 0111010101 1001100101 1101010111 101111001101 11011010001 1101010101 011010101 1101010111 0101010101 1101010101 01110100101 1111010101 0011010101 1101010111 1011010101 1111110101 1101010001 1101110101 1101011101 1111011111 1011111111 11110101001 01010101001 1011110101 1001010001 1101011101 01010010101 11010101001 10111101001 111101111001 0111011001 1011010111 1011011101 11101000111 1101010101 10110101001 1011010101 1011000111 1011010101 1111110101 11001010101 11010100101 1101010001 0101010101 01001110111 11011100101 1011110101 1000110011 1011110111 11010110101 11010010101 1011000101 01110100001 1001010111 0101010111 10010100101 1101010111 1101010101 11010100101 1101010101 1001000101 1011010111 1011010011 0111010101 0101010001 11011100101 1101010111 1101010101 1011011111 1011110101 1111011101 01001110111 0111110101 1011000101 11010010101 1011011111 01010101001 1101110101 1101010101 1110011101 1101110101 0111010101 0101111101 0101010111 1111110101 1011111101 1111010111 01001011111 0111000111 1111010101 101101011 10110011101 0101011101 100101111 0101011101 1011011101 010111011000 11110111101 1111111101 1011011110 0101010101 1001010101 1101010101 1011010101 0101011101 0101111101 0101110101 1101010001 11111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 120
Repeated words/phrases
his, how, of, and, or, to
Anaphora
the, all, and
Anadiplosis
days
