This is an analysis of Welcome To The Grand Duke Alexis by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
MUSIC HALL, DECEMBER 6, 1871
Sung to the Russian national air by the children of the public schools.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X X abab acac dede efef
- Stanza lengths: 1,1,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 10101011 100101001101000101 10111011010 11010110001 10110111010 1001011101 11110010010 1011001001 10111011010 1111101111 11011110011 10110101011 10110110111 1001001011 100010010010 1111001011 110100110110 1001011001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
of, that
