This is an analysis of Woman And War by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
We women teach our little sons how wrong
And how ignoble blows are; school and church…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdebf gghbieajjjhheheXkdhecbjXdckefih
- Stanza lengths: 8,31,
- Metre: 1101110111 1101011111 0111110101 0101010111 1101011111 1101000101 1101010001 1101010101 1111111111 1101010001 1101011101 1111010101 1111110111 0101110101 1111101101 1101010101 1011010111 1110111111 1101010111 1101011111 1111110101 1111011101 0101010101 1111010101 01010010101 1100010011 0101000101 11111100111 11000011001 0101011100 1101010111 11110100101 0111011100 111101101 1111110001 1100010101 11110111111 0101110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 38
Repeated words/phrases
and, with, you
Anaphora
and, our
