This is an analysis of A Maiden To Her Mirror by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
He said he loved me! Then he called my hair
Silk threads wherewith sly Cupid strings his bow,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaX abbabccb deed
- Stanza lengths: 5,8,4,
- Metre: 1111111111 11100110101 1101110111 1111111101 0101010 111 0111010111 1011010101 1000111101 1101011101 0101110101 0111101101 1011010111 1011110111 1111110101 1101010011 0101010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 17
Repeated words/phrases
my, he
Anaphora
the
