This is an analysis of Old Rhythm And Rhyme by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
They tell me new methods now govern the Muses,
The modes of expression have changed with the times;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXbbbB cdcdabXb Xeee XdcdXbbbbB
- Stanza lengths: 9,8,4,10,
- Metre: 111110110010 01001011001 110010010110 01101001001 11101101001 01001010101 1101100101100 1011001001 1111 111010111010 11001011101 011000010010 01111001101 111010110010 11101101001 1111110110110 11011011001 010010011110 11001101011 110101111010 111001111011 011011010010 11011101011 110110110010 101001011001 110110110010 11101110101 1101100101100 1011001001 1111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
of, it, oh, i, and
Anaphora
the, and
