This is an analysis of Seeking For Happiness by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Seeking for happiness we must go slowly;
The road leads not down avenues of haste;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc XdXdee feXefX acacgg
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 10110011110 0111110101 11010111110 1101010111 1011001111 0101111101 10111110010 1111010001 11011101010 01011000011 1011001111 1101011111 10010101010 1111011111 111101011000 0111010011 1011001110 1100111110 01011101010 0111110101 11000101010 0111101111 1011001101 1001110111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 27

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