This is an analysis of To James Freeman Clarke by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
I BRING the simplest pledge of love,
Friend of my earlier days;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb cbcb cdcd eded fgfg hdhd hdhd fcfc didiXibib
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11010101 1011001 10010101 011101 11110101 111111 11110111 011111 11010101 110101 11011101 110111 110111001 110111 01101101 010101 010101001 1101001 10111101 010001 01111111 111111 101011101 110101 01001101 011111 11010101 110011 11010101 111111 11010101 111111 01010111 110111 11111111 111101 01110101 111101 01010101 010101 11001111 0111001 01010101 111111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
and, we
Anaphora
what, the, his
