This is an analysis of The Toadstool by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
THERE 's a thing that grows by the fainting flower,
And springs in the shade of the lady's bower;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffggbb hhiijjdd kkkkeell
- Stanza lengths: 16,8,8,
- Metre: 110111101010 101001001010 010110111 1110100101 101010101 1011100101 10101110101 111010101 111100101 1110110101 1111010101 0010100101 110100101 110101101 011100101 010010101 110100101 1100110101 010110101 0101110111 0010111101 1010100101 1010110111 0100100101 11100110101 0010010101 1110100101 101110101 1110110111 1100110101 10101100101 010100101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
and, she, his, her
Anaphora
and, the, his