This is an analysis of Growing Old by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Little by little the year grows old,
The red leaves drop from the maple boughs;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab bcac adad Xcdc ecec
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 101100111 011100101 011110111 10010101 10010111 101101011010 10110111101 0111111010 101101111 1101101101 111000101 1011100111 1011111111 010111110 110111101 1100111010 111011011 111001010 1100100101 1110101010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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