This is an analysis of My Friend by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
When first I looked upon the face of Pain
I shrank repelled, as one shrinks from a foe…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXabbacc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111010101 1101111001 1101011101 1101010101 1101011101 1110111111 1111111111 1101110111 1101100111 11110101001 1101110011 1111011101 0111011001 1111111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
i, of
Anaphora
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