This is an analysis of Until The Night by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Over the ocean of life’s commotion
We sail till the night comes on.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabcbcaa Xbdedebb Xbfafabb
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
  • Metre: 1001001010 1110111 11100101 100100101 110100101 11010111 101101101 1011110111 1001101111 1100101 10010111 10011111 10111101 101011111 1110100101 1111001001 1001001010 100111 11110100101 0100100111 010010111 0100100100 1100110111 1100100111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

sail, of, and

Anaphora

and