This is an analysis of The Sweet Little Man by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
DEDICATED TO THE STAY-AT-HOME RANGERS
Now, while our soldiers are fighting our battles,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a abXb cbcb abab bbbb abab dbdb abXb ebeb abab aXab abXb XbXb abab fbfbXdbdb
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 10000011110 11110110110 1101011111 10110110110 1111011101 10111010110 1001001001 10011111110 1111011101 10010011110 1101011001 10011111110 1111011101 11010010010 1001101011 10010111010 1001101101 11101010110 1001001001 11011010110 1111101101 10110011110 1011001011 11011010110 1001101101 11010111010 1011111001 1110110100 1001101101 11010010011 1001001001 10011110011 1111101101 11010110010 1101001101 00010011110 1011101101 11010010010 1001011010 100100111010 1101001101 11011110010 1111011011 11010010100 1101001101 10110010110 1101001001 10110010100 1001011101 10110110010 1011101011 10111111010 1101011101 11111010011 1011001001 10011110011 0111101101 11111011110 1011111011 10011010010 1111011101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 16
- Lines: 61
Repeated words/phrases
you, for, he, him
Anaphora
all, such, how
