This is an analysis of Over The Alley by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Here in my office I sit and write
Hour on hour, and day on day,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ceceaXaX fXfbgbgb dhdhcbcb iaiachch fbfbjXjc
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 101101111 101101111 0110100111 11101011001 010101101 0101100111 011100101 011101101 010101101 011111001 1011101111 100100101 010101111 1011110111 1100100111 1100101111 1101101111 01101001101 1011010101 0100110111 0110100111 1111100101 100101101 1110101001 111100101 1000101101 110111111 0011100111 100100111 0110111011 110010111 1111011001 11101101 100101111 1011100111 111100101 1111111111 010101101 1111111001 1111011111 111101111 1101111101 11110101001 11101100111 100101101 1111101110 111111111 1001011001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
her, and, or, i, how, you
Anaphora
a, her
