This is an analysis of Searching by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
These quiet Autumn days,
My soul, like Noah's dove, on airy wings…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaa abca ddXd ceeb fddf ghhg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 110101 1111011101 1111010101 010101 010101 0101000101 1101010100 110101 101101 1111101101 1101010110 010101 100100 1111000101 0101011011 010111 111111 1101111001 100110100101 010101 110101 1001010101 1111110101 111111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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