This is an analysis of National Anniversay Ode by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Ho! for the day in the whole year the brightest!
Long may it live in the heart of the nation!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbbcbcb XbXbcddd efbfcgbg XeXXcafa X
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,1,
- Metre: 11010011010 11010010010 11001011010 110010011010 110100110111 1001 10111010101 0101 11110010010 11010110010 11011110011 10111010010 100101100101 1001 111101111101 10101 11010110110 011111011110 0010010110110 011010111110 100100111101 01101 110101110111 1001 10010111010 010011010010 11011011010 110010010110 1110100100011 1101 1100101010101 101111 0111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
to, of, and
Anaphora
long, what, with, and
