This is an analysis of The Traveller by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Reply to Rudyard Kipling’s ‘He travels the fastest who travels alone.’
Who travels alone with his eye on the heights,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bb aa cC cc dd cC ee ccXcC
- Stanza lengths: 1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Metre: 010101011001011001 11001001101 111001111101 11011101001 101001001111 11101111011 11001011101 11001011001 11001001101 11001011001 1010010110001 11101001001 11001011101 001001001011 011111011001 11001001001 101001011001 11001011001 11001011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 19
Repeated words/phrases
travels
Anaphora
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