This is an analysis of Perfectness by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
All perfect things are saddening in effect.
The autumn wood robed in its scarlet clothes,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a b b X a b b a c d d c X X
- Stanza lengths: 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Metre: 10111100001 0101100101 0101010101 11011111010 1011010101 11110101101 1101010111 1111010001 10011100001 1101010101 1001011101 0101111111 1101000111 1101001100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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