This is an analysis of Worth While by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

It is easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows by like a song,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcded afgfXheh gifigcec
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
  • Metre: 0010010010 1111101 1011101101 1101111 101001010 10111000 10110101001 0011111 0010010010 1101101 1011011101 0101101 1010010010 01001110 10110101001 001101010 101001010 1111101 0111010001 1110101 101011010 101011001 00111101011 111011001
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

that

Anaphora

and, when