This is an analysis of Answered by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Good-bye – Yes, I am going,
Sudden? Well, you are right.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbddedfebecbgb aeXeXbdb Xegehfff hdXd
- Stanza lengths: 16,8,8,4,
- Metre: 0111110 101111 101011101 010111 1001111 110111 11100100101 1011101 1011110 111011 11110111 110111 11110011 110111 111110111 111111 11111110 010101 1101101001 1100101 11111010 010111 1110101011 1111001 11111010 110101 111110011 111111 111001010 11100111 1110010111 111101 11111010 110101 111100111 1111111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
i, you
Anaphora
you, i