This is an analysis of The Coming Man by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Oh, not for the great departed,
Who formed our country's laws,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababXcbc dcdcefgf ahahhded gigidaca bdbdXcXc
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 11101010 111101 11101010 110101 11111010 011101 11110101 110100 11001110 010101 01101110 110111 0101110 110101 011010101 0110101 0101010 0101010 11111010 11101010 111001110 0101001 11110111 110101 11101010 010101 11111010 111111 101101010 1011101 1101110101 0101001 1111010 0110101 11010010 1100101 101011011 1010101 01010011 0011100
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
man, to
Anaphora
a, shall