This is an analysis of The Ship Of State by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
A SENTIMENT
This 'sentiment' was read on the same occasion as the 'Family Record,'…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a Xa bbaaaaaaccddddaaeeff
- Stanza lengths: 1,2,20,
- Metre: 0100 0100111010101010010 10100010001010001001000100101010110100011001100 0101010111 1111010001 1111001101 1111110111 1101011110 1011001111 1100010101 0101010111 1011011111 0011010101 11110100101 0101110101 01100010101 1101110101 1111110101 1011000101 1101010111 0101001000 1011010101 1101011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 23
Repeated words/phrases
of, her
Anaphora
the
