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,…
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