This is an analysis of Love Will Wane by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
When your love begins to wane,
Spare me from the cruel pain…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eebb ffff eedd bbff XXbb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1110101 1100101 0111111 1111111 1010101 1011111 1010111 0110101 1011101 1111101 1110111 1111111 1000100 1001101 1110111 100111 1111101 1010101 1110001 1001110 1011111 0111111 1011111 1111111 1010101 1010110 11110111 1010111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
me, by, you
Anaphora
by