This is an analysis of The Beautiful Blue Danube by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
They drift down the hall together;
He smiles in her lifted eyes.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababacac bdbdaeae fcfcagag ababhhhh iiiifhfh
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 11101010 1100101 11011010 0100101 11101010 1110101 11001010 1101111 101001010 1011101 101001110 011001 101101010 0100101 111110110 110101 1101110 111101 1111110 001111 00110110 0010011 01001010 010111 101001110 10100101 0011010 11101001 11101010 1010111 11001010 1100101 00101010 0100101 11001010 111111 101010110 1010101 11110110 010111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
if
