This is an analysis of Meg's Curse by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
The sun rode high in a cloudless sky
Of a perfect summer morn.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbadeX fghgahhh ebibeceX dabagdid afXfXXXXXj beeXahdh dabakeXe cececjXj cfefhXee ccacbckc cacaXiaX Xbeeefbcb
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,10,8,8,8,8,8,8,9,
- Metre: 011100101 0001101 111110001 1101111 1010100101 1110101 010100101 11111111 011100101 111110 101011110 1100101 110011101 110111001 11010111 10100110110110 11011101 111101 111101011 00100101 110111111 1111011 1010100101 111111 0011000101 10100111 0101110101 1011101 111111111 1100101 010111111 111111 0010110111 1110101 111011010110 11111001 1111111111111111 101010110 1110100101 101111 111110101 011111 11101101111 11111111 111101111001 1111111 0111001001 00110101 1101110111 001001101 1100110101 10111111 1111110110 1101111 0101110001 1100101 0100110101 1101001 1101000101 10101001 01011111 1111011 111100101 11011001 110111001 0100111 0100110101 0100101 1110110101 1100101 01111101 111101 1101111101 1111001 111100101 1010101 101010111 001111001 110101101 1110101 0010111001 0100101 011100111 0110101 10101100101 110101 110111001 1111111 1111101 11111001 101010101 011111 00100100111 01111101 110110101 110101 1100110101 11101001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 109
Repeated words/phrases
you, but, of, she, whip, poor, wet, how, now, and, ha, child
Anaphora
she, how