This is an analysis of One Woman's Memory by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Here is a lock of his soft, dark hair,
And here are the letters he wrote to me.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefgaga bhbhhfhf iaiXhjhj ikikbdbd Xieiedkdk
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,9,
- Metre: 100100111 1110101101 1010111101 0100101 110011001 1011111101 1110100111 111111 1100100101 111101001 110111101 111101 100100101 0010100101 1010110101 110101 1101110110 101111111 110010111 00100101 1010101111 1100110101 010110101 101101 101111011 0010111101 111110111 00100101 1111110111 1111111111 110100101 1100101 110111111 1010111001 110111011 110101 0111110101 0111110101 1111111101 1111101 1111110101 111001001011 111010111 001101 110110101 110100111 1110110101 1100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 53
Repeated words/phrases
here, and, not, i, to
Anaphora
and, i
