This is an analysis of The Ploughman by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
ANNIVERSARY OF THE BERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,
OCTOBER 4, 1849…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XX aabb ccddddXeccffddee eeccccgg hhXaddcccceeff ddiieeggdXbbddcc
- Stanza lengths: 2,4,16,8,14,16,
- Metre: 101000011101000100 01011 1011010101 1111010101 0111110101 0101010001 10010101001 1001110101 1101010101 1011010111 1111010101 0111010111 10110101100 1011010111 10111101001 1011110101 1011010101 0101110101 110010100111 01010101001 10111100101 1101100101 1101110101 0101010101 0001110101 1101010101 0001010101 1011010101 11011100101 1101010001 1101011001 1101111101 11110101001 1011010101 111101101001 1111010111 10011110111 10110011001 11001011101 1111000101 1111011101 1111010101 1111001101 1111011101 1111110101 0101010101 11110111001 0101010101 1111010101 1101000101 1011110111 0101110101 1101010011 0011010110 1101110101 1111100101 11010100001 0111000111 11011010101 0111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 60
Repeated words/phrases
thy, our, to
Anaphora
we