This is an analysis of The Two Streams by Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Behold the rocky wall
That down its sloping sides…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdecec abab efef
  • Stanza lengths: 12,4,4,
  • Metre: 010101 110101 1011110111 010101 111101 110101 01000100101 101101 010111 110101 0101000101 0110101 100100 110101 1101010101 1100101 001101 001101 1011010101 100101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 20

Anaphora

from, one