This is an analysis of A Fatal Impress by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
A little leaf just in the forest's edge,
All summer long, had listened to the wooing…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dcdcbX eXecff XgcgXc hXhchh
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 0101100101 11011100010 01001110101 10111110010 110001001110 01011111010 1111011101 01010101010 1100010101 10011101110 11011111010 110111111101 1111110101 111111111101 01011010101 01000101010 111111001010 10010110010 110111111111 01110111110 11011111110 11011101010 01110101010 0101111010 1101110101 0111010101 0101011001 11010101110 1101000101 0101110001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
so, and
Epiphora
her
