This is an analysis of What Would It Be? by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Now what were the words of Jesus,
And what would He pause and say,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbbXXXX AdcddeeXX AffffcccX
- Stanza lengths: 9,9,9,
- Metre: 11001010 1111111 010010111 0100101 11111111 11011011 11000110 101111111 111010110 110010010 0111101 01011001001 1101001 111111101 11110011 11101011 100111001 01101011 110010010 0111101 0011100101 1101101 111000111 110010110 010010110 1101111001 110001111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 29
Repeated words/phrases
your, of, it
Epiphora
you, it
