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.…
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