This is an analysis of True Charity by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
I gave a beggar from my little store
Of well-earned gold. He spent the shining ore…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaba ccba
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,
- Metre: 1101001101 0111110101 1101110111 110101 1101111101 1101010101 1111010101 111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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