This is an analysis of The Star And The Water Lily by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
THE SUN stepped down from his golden throne,
And lay in the silent sea,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbXded XefeXdcd aegeebfX hbbbeada XdfdghXhXefbfbeae
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 011100101 1100101 10101100101 1010111 10010100 110101 1110100101 01111001 010100101 00100101 010110111 11110101 1110101101 1110111 10100100101 1110111 0100101101 1101101 111100101 1100101 1010111011 11111111 10101111001 1111111 110010111 1100101 1110100101 0110111 111101011 1100111 011110111 1110101 1010110101 1010101 10101101001 10100101 1111100101 1100101 10101001010 1110101 0110101111 1100101 1101001001 1100101 011100101 1100101 110110101 1100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
and, he, nor
Anaphora
and, nor
