This is an analysis of I Love You by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
I love your lips when they're wet with wine
And red with a wild desire;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbdede efefcgcg hahacfXf
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 111111101 11001010 1111101001 10010010 111110111 10100101 111110101 1100111 1110111 0010101 1110111 10100101 1110111101 1110111 01101111011 0111101 111101111 1100101 1100101001 11101111 11101111 1011101 111111101 00100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
with, your