This is an analysis of The Wheel Of The Breast by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Through rivers of veins on the nameless quest
The tide of my life goes hurriedly sweeping,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaabccdeXeeffadbaadghhgccbbaXhha
- Stanza lengths: 33,
- Metre: 1100110101 01011110010 101011001101 0101101011 101001110 10101001 0110101111 11110011110 011100111 0111001110 101100101 01011111001 101001001010 1101001110 11100100111 0101011010 11101010010 0010100101 1010100101 101011011010 1110111101 110010110110 1001101110 110101101 0010100111 1101100101 11011001010 101001101110 110100111 00110110101 011100110 1001101010 01001111011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 33
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, i, that
Anaphora
and
