This is an analysis of The Island Of Endless Play by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Said Willie to Tom 'Let us hie away
To the wonderful Island of Endless Play.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aa Xb cc aa dd cc aa ee aX ffcXggaabX ccbb dd aa dX aaXbbaa
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,10,4,2,2,2,7,
- Metre: 1100111101 00100100101 0110100111 1010101101 1111001011 00101011001 1101111101 11011011001 11101001001 11111101101 1101011011 11001001111 1110100101 0110101111 111101111 101101111 0110101111 100101111 10111011010 10101001010 11100100101 100010011110 1111011011 01001001001 1110100101 11101111 011111001 1110100101 0101001001 11101011001 110000111 1110110101 110110101 110100111 111101111 1111101001 010110111 01011010010 111101101101 1001001001 11010101 111111101 1111001111 110100101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 16
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
and, we, sail, of
Anaphora
and, we
