This is an analysis of Love Is Enough by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Love is enough. Let us not ask for gold.
Wealth breeds false aims, and pride and selfishness;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababccD ececbbD fcfcccD ghghccD
  • Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,7,
  • Metre: 1001111111 1111111100 01011100101 1111010111 01111101001 1101111101 1001 1001111111 0100010101 0110010001 1001010111 1111000101 1100110101 1001 10011111110 0111010101 01110101110 1101010001 01011100100 1101111001 1001 1001111111 11011110001 1101011101 1111111101 1111110111 1101110101 1001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

and, love

Anaphora

love, what