This is an analysis of Our Atlas by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Not Atlas, with his shoulders bent beneath the weighty world,
Bore such a burden as this man, on whom the Gods have hurled…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccaa aadd eeff bbdd Xaaeedd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,7,
- Metre: 11000101010101 11010101110111 010011001110011 11110101010111 00010111111101 11010101011101 11011111010101 1101001110100101 01110101011001 11010001000101 110111011111010 010101011101010 11001101110101 11011101110111 110011011111001 11111101011101 01010101010111 11110001110011 0101010111010010 101101011100110 11001101011101 110100101110111 111111010101110 111001011101110 100101011111010 1101001011111110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 31
Repeated words/phrases
in, of, or, his, and
Anaphora
and, shine
