This is an analysis of Bedlam Town by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Do you want to peep into Bedlam Town?
Then come with me, when the day swings down,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXX ddcXXd aadd aaXa
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,6,4,4,
- Metre: 1110100101 110110111 000101101 110100101 10100101 101001101 11100111 101111111 10101111 111101011001 0100100111 11001001010 110111111 111010101 010100101 1001001001 0010100101 1111001001 1101001110 0101101010 1100100110 10110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 26
Repeated words/phrases
and, '
Anaphora
and
Epiphora
'