This is an analysis of To The Teachers Of America by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
TEACHERS of teachers! Yours the task,
Noblest that noble minds can ask,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbcXb ccddeffe ccccegge
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 10010101 10110111 11101001 01010101 110101 010100111 0101001001 0101001 10010001 11010101 11010101 11111001 010101 110101001 011100101 011101 10010101 11010101 01010101 01010101 110101 11010101 110010101 0100011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
