This is an analysis of Lay It Away by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
We will lay our summer away, my friend,
So tenderly lay it away.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc dedefgfg chchijij kckcjbjb
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 1011100111 11001001 0111100101 111101 10101101 101001 1010011100 100111 10100110111 111101 10111001001 11011001 101100111 1100101 101101111 100101 1010010101 1001111 110110111 010111 111110111 11111101 111011111 111111 0111100101 1010111 01011001001 1110111 110101001 1100101 111011101 11101001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
dead, you, i
Anaphora
nothing