This is an analysis of Wanted--A Little Girl by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Where have they gone to-the little girls
With natural manners and natural curls;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbXa cccc ddee aXee eebbXX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,6,
- Metre: 111100101 01001011001 111101111 110100101 1011001011 010101101 101111011 1101100101 101111111 1101011001 100100101 111111001 100100101 1110101101 110101111 11110001001 111110010011 1100101101 1011011001 10100101 11110011 1001011001 1110100101 0101110101 01100111101 11101001110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 31
Repeated words/phrases
and, old, of, they
Anaphora
they
