This is an analysis of Warning by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

High in the heavens I saw the moon this morning,
Albeit the sun shone bright;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 100101101010 0100111 10110101010 0101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4