This is an analysis of Regret by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
There is a haunting phantom called Regret,
A shadowy creature robed somewhat like woe,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba aXaccX
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 1001010101 01001011111 1100011111 1011110101 1111011101 1101011011 1101110101 1101110001 1111101111 1111011101 1011011111 1111011111 1111111101 1111111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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