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.…
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
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Anaphora
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