This is an analysis of The Lady And The Dame by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
So thou hast the art, good dame, thou swearest,
To keep Time's perishing touch at bay…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabaXcdc efefghih iaiaejaj edidXdgd bkdkjhch
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 1110101110 011100111 0010010001110 1010100101 10110111011 111110100 11111001110 010101101 1101010110 111101101 1101011010 011100101 00101101010 101010111 1111011110 110100111 10100111110 10100110111 01001011110 00100100101 11010010010 1101010001 010111010111 1101101111 0111011010 1111011010 010010111110 0101001110 0101011010 0011101111 11110111010 010101111 10111001010 01001011001 0111001010 111111101 1111001110 010110101 10111011110 011011101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
and, of
Anaphora
and, the, if
