This is an analysis of Desolation by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

I think that the bitterest sorrow or pain
Of love unrequited, or cold death’s woe,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abba cddc eeee fggf bhhb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11101001011 0110101111 01010110111 111100101 11110101111 110100111 110101101 111100101 110101111 1011100111 1110101100 010101111 1011101111 1011011101 1101011001 1100101101 111100111 1111100111 01101001011 11100101101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

that, and, when, we, it

Anaphora

when