This is an analysis of At Bay by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Wife
Reach out your arms, and hold me close and fast.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbb cXcc addd ccXc aeee cXff aggg chhh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1 1111111111 11111100011 1101011111 10 11110111100 1101110101 1111110111 1 1111110101 1111010111 1101001101 10 1111110011 110111001000 0101110111 1 110101001010 11011110001 1101011111 10 1101011101 1001110001 1101010001 1 1110111111 1111010111 1101011111 10 1110111111 11010111101 1111110001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
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