This is an analysis of To George Peabody by Oliver Wendell Holmes.

DANVERS, 1866
BANKRUPT! our pockets inside out!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X ababbcbC adadbcbC
  • Stanza lengths: 1,8,8,
  • Metre: 101 10110011 100101010 10110101 110101010 110100101 010100011 11010111 010101111 01011111 110101010 11010101 110101110 01110111 010100011 110011001 010101111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 17

Anaphora

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