This is an analysis of His Youth by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Dying? I am not dying. Are you mad?
You think I need to ask for heavenly grace?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef XgXg hghg dcdc ijij klkl gfgf cXcc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1011110111 11110111001 1111011101 0111001101 1111111101 1011100011 1111011011 11001111101 1111111101 11111101001 1111010111 1111011101 1011111111 1101111101 0111011101 1101010111 1111110101 0111010111 11110111010 11110011001 1111110101 1110111101 1111111111 1111111111 11011011101 11110111111 01110010101 1111001111 10110110101 1101011101 1111010111 0111111111 1111111111 1101011101 1111010111 1111010110 1111110111 1101110110 0101010111 1011111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 49
Repeated words/phrases
you, i, in, youth, of, its, think
Anaphora
how
