This is an analysis of Forward by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Let me look always forward. Never back.
Was I not formed for progress? Otherwise…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacddcdd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111110101 1111111101 0101011101 1111110101 1111111011 1001010101 1100010101 0101010101 1111010101 1101010111 1101011101 1101110111 1101110011 0101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
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