This is an analysis of To A Blank Sheet Of Paper by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
WAN-VISAGED thing! thy virgin leaf
To me looks more than deadly pale,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cdcd efff ghih bcXc Xjaj Xjgj XfXf eiXi fkXkXbaba
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 110011101 01111101 01011111 010101 11111101 11110111 11010101 110101 11111101 11010101 11111101 100101 110110101 11011101 11011101 010111 01010001 11010111 11011101 110011 001001010 11010111 11011101 111101 10010111 11110101 11111101 110101 01011101 01110101 01011101 010101 11111111 11011101 11111111 111101 110010001 010010101 011101010 0101001 11010011 01110101 11110001 1111001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
thou
Anaphora
or, the
