This is an analysis of The Black Charger by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
There's a terrible steed that rests not night nor day,
But onward and onward, for ever away,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd bbaXeeff ggXbhXii jjaahhkk aabblldd
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 101001111111 11011011001 11011011011 01011001101 0101101011 101001011011 11011011111 11011011001 11101001001 11101101001 11111101101 001101011111 101101101101 111001101001 11011011101 11011011111 11101101001 11111001001 1011010011100 1110111011010 001001101001 111001001011 1101111001 101001001011 11101111101 101101001001 11001111001 1010111101011 11001111101 111001001111 01001001101 11011001001 111001111111 11101111101 110001101101 101001111001 111001111111 111101111111 11011011011 101101101101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
through, and, by, he, you, on, his, till, him
Anaphora
is, he, and, on