This is an analysis of Speech by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough
Without your woe. No path is wholly rough.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddaaee ffgghh
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
  • Metre: 1100010101 0111110101 1101011111 1100010101 01111101001 0100011111 1101010101 1101001101 0111011111 1101110101 0101111111 1101011111 1101010101 0101000111 1101110011 1101110101 1111110101 1111111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

of