This is an analysis of Spectres by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
How terrible these nights are when alone
With our scarred hearts, we sit in solitude,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef ecec gaga hbhbXbfbf
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1100111101 0111110101 1111000101 1100010101 1001010101 1100111101 11000111001 0100011100 1001010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101110111 1111110111 1111010001 1001110111 1111010001 1101110011 1111011111 1101110101 1111011101 0101110101 1100010111 1111110101 0101111001 1011000101 1111111111 1111110101 11110011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
and, it, or, with, we
Anaphora
i, and