This is an analysis of Song Of The Rail by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Oh, an ugly thing is an iron rail,
Black, with its face to the dust.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaaab cdcccd eaeeeaXeaeeea
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,13,
- Metre: 1110101101 1001001 10100101111 01001011001 10110111001 10100101 0101001001 0100101 1011100111 1010110111 10100100101 1100101 1010110111 11001101 010011101 100101111 1010010111 00101001 01110011001 0100101 010010110001 111100101 1011100101 11011001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
it, of, and
Anaphora
and, of
