This is an analysis of What We All Think by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
THAT age was older once than now,
In spite of locks untimely shed,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab acac bdbd efef dXdX bgbg cbcb egeX haha bibi
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11110111 01010101 110010101 11111101 111101001 11001111 11010101 11000101 11010111 01010111 01110111 11010011 11101101 11111101 10110100 11011101 100110111 11010001 11010101 110101010 11110101 11110101 11010111 11110101 111110101 010100101 1100100111 11110111 11110101 11010011 11011111 111111010 11010101 100010101 11010111 11010111 11010111 11011101 11011101 11110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
with, that, our
Anaphora
that, their
