This is an analysis of The September Gale by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
I'M not a chicken; I have seen
Full many a chill September,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ededfbfb gfgXXbab XdfdhfcX XiXigfgX fifihici fbabcfaX
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 01010111 11001010 11110101 1111010 01011111 1111010 01111111 1111010 01110011 1101110 11010111 01010110 01010101 0111010 01010001 1111010 11011101 1111010 11110101 101010 11011001 1101010 01110101 1111010 010001101 1111010 01110101 1101010 11011101 1101110 11110011 1111110 11010101 0111010 11010110 0101000 10110111 1101010 100010001101 101011100 11110011 1101110 01111101 0111010 11011101 1101110 01101101 1011110 11110100 1101110 11110111 0101010 11111101 0111010 01011101 1111110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
i, my, them, and
Anaphora
and, i, the