This is an analysis of Time And Love by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Time flies. The swift hours hurry by
And speed us on to untried ways;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaBXcXc bbbBdcdc ebeBcaca
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 110110101 11110011 11010101 1111 01111111 111101 11100111 1111 11011111 11011001 10011100 1111 110111001 110101 11110101 1111 11111101 11101111 11011111 1111 11111101 110111 11000101 1111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
he, love, when
Anaphora
he, when
