This is an analysis of Life Is A Privilege by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Life is a privilege. Its youthful days
Shine with the radiance of continuous Mays.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd aXeeffgg aahhiidd ffjjjjii
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 1001000101 100100001001 01010101010 010101010010 01010010101 01010011001 0111010101 1100110001 1001001111 01000010110 11010011111 11010111001 1101010011 0101010011 1111010111 0101010100 10010010101 1111010101 1111000101 1011010001 1101110011 100100100111 1001011111 1100001101 1001000111 1101010101 0101111111 1100110001 1011010001 01010010101 1001011111 1110111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
to, and, of, that
Anaphora
to, what
