This is an analysis of Wherefore by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Wherefore in dreams are sorrows born anew,
A healed wound opened, or the past revived?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefgdgD hihibdbD
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 10001110101 0111010101 1101111101 0101110111 11010110111 1101010001 11010010001 0101 0101010001 1101111001 1111111001 1100010111 0111110011 11011010001 0111110101 0101 0101110111 0111111101 1011000101 1111010101 0101111101 1101101101 1101111111 0101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
in, of, that
Anaphora
that