This is an analysis of The Opening Of The Piano by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
IN the little southern parlor of tbe house you may have seen
With the gambrel-roof, and the gable looking westward to the green,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeeX ccXd ddcX ffgg ddfX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 001010100111111 0010110101010001 101010110010101 101010101110001 1111010010101 101010101010101 101011101110101 0010101010101001 101011100010001 101110101010101 101011100010101 10101010001101010 101111101010101 111001010110111 0010101000101001 110000100010101 11001110111101 11001100001101001 10010101100111 1100111001010010 1010010101101 1011010101101 100101011101 10010101110101 110100000010101 1000100100010101 1111101010100111 1000100101111010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, open, it
