This is an analysis of The Messenger by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
She rose up in the early dawn,
And white and silently she moved…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababccbb dedebXfX gXXXaXXX ehehfXbX XiXijjXX afXfbXgg kakajXbX
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 11100101 11110011 01011111 01010111 11010101 10110001 11011101 11011001 01110111 11110101 11110001 11010011 11111111 10111111 11011111 10010101 01010101 110101100 11110001 11111101 11111111 111101010 1101011110 11011101 01010101 01011011 11100101 1110101 10010001 11111101 01010101 10110101 11010101 01111001 11011111 010101001 01110111 11011101 11010111 11010001 11011101 01110101 110111100 11111101 11010111 11110111 01010101 11010101 10111001 11010101 11110111 11010111 11010001 11111101 11011100 11011111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 62
Repeated words/phrases
and, ', you, her
Anaphora
the
Epiphora
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