This is an analysis of Progress by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Let there be many windows to your soul,
That all the glory of the universe…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXcXdXefXabXbbdfcddcbXea
  • Stanza lengths: 25,
  • Metre: 1101010011 1101000101 1101010101 01111101001 1101010101 0101010101 1111011101 1111 110101 11110010011 0111000111 01001000101 1100010101 1100100101 1101101101 1111110001 0101010111 0101010001 1001010111 1101110101 1001010011 1101101111 1101000100 1101110101 0101111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 25

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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