This is an analysis of Is It Best? by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
O mother who sips sweetened liquors!
Look down at the child on your breast;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbXaca dcecXddX cfXfebXX
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 110111010 11101111 110011011 11101101 1110011010 10010001 0010111110 101101111 1111010010 01101001 1111010110 11001001 1111111110 101011011 1010111010 111101001 110010011 111011001 100111010 11100011 1111010010 101001111 110011110 11101101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 26
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