This is an analysis of Out Of The Depths: Written After The Reformation Of A Brilliant And Talented Man by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Out of the midnight, rayless and cheerless,
Into the morning's golden light;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabaXbbX aXXacbcb XbXbbbXb bdcdXbbb cbXbbbXb
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Metre: 1001110110 00010101 1001001110 00010111 1001111010 100111101 11001101010 111110110 1001011010 1001001100 0101001011 110100101 10010010011 100111101 110111010 111110101 1101101110 010111101 1101001100 11001100111 1101001010 11010101 111110110 110101101 1001101010 10010111 11101001010 0100110101 1001011110 100111101 11101001110 1111110101 1001101110 1001101011 111010111110 1011101101 11010110010 1101001111 11111010110 110110101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 44

Repeated words/phrases

of, and, out, that, in, he, like

Anaphora

out, lost, down, god