This is an analysis of Certitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
There was a time when I was confident
That God's stupendous mystery of birth…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeXeXff
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101111100 1101010001 1101010001 1100110001 1111110001 1101011101 1001100101 1111010101 1110011101 1111110111 1111000101 1111110110 01010101111 1111011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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