This is an analysis of Love by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

The longer I live and the more I see
Of the struggle of souls towards the heights above,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc cdcdaa
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,
  • Metre: 0101110111 001001010101 010011101 101011101001 011100111 1111101101 11011101101 100101111 1100101101 010100111 010111111 1101101101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

of, and

Anaphora

a