This is an analysis of Memory's River by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
In Nature's bright blossoms not always reposes
That strange subtle essence more rare than their bloom,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabacdXd bebeafcf ghghcaba ehehbhXX bfbfhiXi
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 010110111100 11101011111 110010010110 11011011101 110010110010 11001011011 010011010011 01001001111 111011010010 11101101011 111011010010 11011011001 111110110110 11001011001 110010110110 11011011001 111011011110 01111001001 11111001010 11011101101 110010110110 01011011111 110110100110 11101011001 110110011110 11001111101 111111111110 11011011011 111110111110 11011001101 010110111100 11001001010 111111010010 11001110001 110110010010 11111111001 111010110110 11001011111 1010110010110 01001011001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
and, you, them, their
Anaphora
you, their
