This is an analysis of Blind Sorrow by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
One bitter time of mourning, I remember,
When day, and night, my sad heart did complain,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc XdXd aeae fcfc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11010101010 1111111001 11111111010 1101001101 10111011010 0110111111 10010101011 1101010101 11010111010 1101101101 11110101010 1101011011 11011111010 01110101001 11110101010 1101111101 11010101110 11011100100 11001101110 0101110101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
i, his