This is an analysis of Show Me The Way by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Show me the way that leads to the true life.
I do not care what tempests may assail me,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbBcdcdbBefefbBghghbB
  • Stanza lengths: 24,
  • Metre: 1101110011 11111101011 1101010101 11110110111 1111110001 1101 1101100101 1101010001 1111110111 0111110111 0111011111 1101 1101111101 01110101010 0111011101 011101010010 1011111111 1101 1101011011 101011010001 0111000111 11110000101 1101010111 1101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

i, me, above

Anaphora

i, show, above