This is an analysis of The Voice by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
I dreamed a Voice, of one God-authorised,
Cried loudly thro’ the world, ‘Disarm! Disarm! ’…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabbcdeXfedXed fbegghfcc igecihaecdh cfjcciccd jXabcejdee Xa cdkkddkkdXdhcdhc
- Stanza lengths: 14,9,11,9,10,2,16,
- Metre: 11010111000 1101010101 1111000001 1111010111 111100111 01 0111000101 1111110011 1101010001 1001010101 010111010 1 1101011101 1111110011 0101010111 1101111111 011101011 1 110101111 1 0101110101 110111111 1 1101010101 1001011111 1001110100 1001010011 1111110101 1101011100 1101010101 1101011101 01010101001 1101010101 1101100011 1100010101 1101010101 11110010101 1101010111 0101111101 0101011101 0101110101 0101010001 1101110011 1101110111 01010001010 1101110111 11110101001 1001011101 1101110001 1111000101 1011010101 11010001010 1101010100 11010111000 1101110101 010 0111010101 0111010111 0101010111 1111111101 1011010001 1111010101 0101110111 0101001101 1001010101 01001010101 1101111101 01010100101 1111010001 0111111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 70
Repeated words/phrases
and, for, of, love
Anaphora
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