This is an analysis of The Poet’s Lot by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
WHAT is a poet's love?--
To write a girl a sonnet,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcXc dddd XaXa dbdb cccc eeee
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 100101 0101010 01011111 1100010 100101 1101010 11010100 0001010 110101 1011010 11011101 1011010 100101 1001011 11011101 11001111 010101 1101011 11011101 1111011 100101 1101110 01010101 0101010 110011 0101011 11010111 01110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
ye, nor, in
Anaphora
to, nor, the
