This is an analysis of The Way Of It by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
This is the way of it, wide world over,
One is beloved, and one is the lover,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabccbdd ccbeebff aaeXXeaa
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 0001001110 10010110010 11101001 11001001010 11001101010 11101001 110100101 10101100111 11001001010 1101011010 1110101 11111111010 1111011110 0110101 11101011001 10100100101 0001001110 01110010010 10101001 1100101010 10111001011 1101101 11101011110 1100101110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
one, and, other
Anaphora
one
Epiphora
it
