This is an analysis of Woman by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Give us that grand word ‘woman’ once again,
And let’s have done with ‘lady’: one’s a term…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbacbbcdeedfeefgg
  • Stanza lengths: 18,
  • Metre: 1111110101 1111010101 1011110011 1101010111 1101110101 0101110101 1101101001 1101011111 0101011110 0011011101 1101010101 1011011111 0011010101 1101101111 1101111101 1100011001 1011100101 1101011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

one, and, in

Anaphora

the