This is an analysis of The Boys' And Girls' Thanksgiving Of 1892 by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Never since the race was started,
Had a boy in any clime,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bcbc bdbd efef eded gaga ffff bdXd bhbh baba ididXfcfc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 10101110 1010101 10011010 1010011 10101110 1011101 11101110 1011101 11011010 1010111 11101010 0010101 10101010 1010101 11101010 1010101 11101010 1011111 100101010 111001 11101010 1110111 01111010 1110101 00101010 1010101 11101010 1010111 10111110 1010101 11111110 1010101 10111110 1010101 11101010 1011101 01101010 0110111 11101110 1010111 10101110 1110111 11101010 1011101 11101010 1010111 10111010 1110101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
she
Anaphora
if
