This is an analysis of To H. W. Longfellow by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
BEFORE HIS DEPARTURE FOR EUROPE, MAY 27, 1868
OUR Poet, who has taught the Western breeze…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X aabbb ccddd eeaaa aafff ddfff aaggXXccfff
- Stanza lengths: 1,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Metre: 010010110111 1101110101 01010111001 010100001001 1101010101 100101110101 1101010100 11011101001 1111011101 1011010111 1011010110101 11001110101 1111011101 10010101001 1111110101 1101011101001 0101011111 0101111101 1111010111 11110010111 1100111110101 1101110101 0101010101 1111010101 10011100101 110111011011 1111010101 1110101001 10010011101 1111010101 1111111101010 1101010110 0111011101 1111010111 1111010111 010101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
his, how, that, thou
Anaphora
where, that
