This is an analysis of The Saddest Hour by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
The saddest hour of anguish and of loss
Is not that season of supreme despair…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbacddcecfeef
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 01010010101 0111000101 1111111101 0101111001 1011000101 1111011101 0100010101 0101110101 1101111101 1111011101 11010101010 1101010101 0111110001 111101010010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
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