This is an analysis of One Of Us Two by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

The day will dawn when one of us shall hearken
In vain to hear a voice that has grown dumb.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xabacbcbbdbdebeb
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 01011101110 0101011111 11011111110 1111111101 10111111010 010010011101 11111110010 1101010101 10110101110 1111010111 11010111010 1101110100 10111111110 1111011101 11111111010 1111110111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

of, all

Anaphora

shall