This is an analysis of To The Poets Who Only Read And Listen by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
WHEN evening's shadowy fingers fold
The flowers of every hue,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeae fefe gggg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 110100101 01001001 11110101 010101 1001001110 0100111 110100010 011101 11110111 110101 11110101 010101 11011101 110101 11010101 101101 10000011 010101 10010101 0100101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
