This is an analysis of the poem To Oliver Wendell Holmes that begins with:
This, the last of Mr. Whittier's poems, was written but a few weeks before his death.
Among the thousands who with hail and cheer... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabb ccbb ccdd eeff ddgg hhff iidd ccee iiii ffcc ggjj iiccXeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001010101011010110101 0101010111 010111 1101111111 110111 1111010111 111101 1101011101 100111 1011011101 011111 0011010101 100111 01111101001 110101 1001110011 0100101 1100010101 010110 0111001101 110111 0101010101 110111 100101001 0010101 1001010001 011101 0101010101 111111 1001110101 111111 1101011101 1100111 100110101 110100 1111110001 110100 1111010011 0100111 1101110011 110011 1111110001 010111 11110110001 010101 010111000111 1100101 1101111111 111101 1101110001 101111 1011011111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, the are repeated.
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