This is an analysis of To A Portrait Of by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
IN THE ATHENIEUM GALLERY
IT may be so,--perhaps thou hast…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X aaba cded cfdf bebe XgXg gdbd hiai feie ddhd cchc gcic edbd ciXi
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 00100100 01010111 011101 10111111 110111 11110101 010100 01010111 010101 11011101 011111 11000111 111101 11110011 110101 10010101 011100 11110111 111101 11010101 011101 11110111 110111 11110111 111101 01110001 010111 01110100 011101 11110101 111101 111101001 010101 01010101 110101 01010101 110111 110001010 100101 01010101 010101 11010101 010101 11010101 011101 11011101 011101 00110111 110011 10110100 111101 11111101 111101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 53
Repeated words/phrases
thy, she, to, it, her
Anaphora
i, that, they, she, and
