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,…

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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