This is an analysis of The Parting Word by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
I must leave thee, lady sweet
Months shall waste before we meet;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd aaeeddff ccgghhaa aaaabbdd iiaajjaa ddkkkkhh Xleeddmm ffnneemmXllaannmm
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 1111101 1110111 1111111 1011101 1010111 11111001 1111101 1110101 1011111 1111101 1010111 1110101 1010111 1110101 1111101 1111111 101101 11101001 0011101 1110101 1011111 10100101 1110101 1011111 10110101 1110101 10011111 1011111 1010111 1011111 1011101 1010100 11101001 1110111 11110011 1111101 1110101 1110101 1111101 1111101 1010011 1010111 1110101 1000011 1110101 1011101 1011101 0010101 11111010 1010101 1011101 1110101 1011111 1010101 1110101 1110111 1011111 1010101 1010001 1111101 1011101 1011101 1011101 1110111 1110001 0111101 1111101 0010101 0011001 1010111 1110101 1110111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 72
Anaphora
never