This is an analysis of Joy by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
My heart is like a little bird
That sits and sings for very gladness.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bcbc dXdX eceX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11010101 111111010 10010101 110101010 01010101 110111010 11011111 110101010 11010011 110101110 111110011 110111011 111011101 111101110 11010101 110110010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
my, o
Anaphora
i