This is an analysis of Upon The Sand by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cddcee
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 1111110101 0101010101 1101110001 1011011101 1101010101 11000111001 1101101101 1101011101 11001010101 0011011111 1011010101 1011010001 1001110111 1101010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
its, and
Anaphora
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