This is an analysis of The Treadmill Song by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The stars are rolling in the sky,
The earth rolls on below,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbdaea fdgdgfgf cebefdgd dhdhhiai cfXfefXf
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 01110001 011101 111101001 010111 11011101 110101 11111101 110001 111111101 111101 01011101 111101 11110101 1010101 11010111 110101 11110101 010101 11000101 110101 11011101 110101 01010101 011101 11010111 110101 11010101 111101 11010101 011101 11100101 101001 110100101 111101 01010111 011111 01011111 111101 11111101 011011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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