This is an analysis of "It Might Have Been" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
We will be what we could be. Do not say,
"It might have been, had not this, or that, or this."…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bcbc dddd XeXe
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1001110111 1011011011110 1111100101 110110 1011111111 11010110001 1111110111 111101 1011111111 0011111001 1101010111 111111 111101101110 011111101 1101111111 110110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
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