This is an analysis of Man's Mission by Lady Jane Wilde.

Human lives are silent teaching,
Be they earnest, mild, and true…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababaacXcc dedeaaaaXa eXXXffgdXg ababeXcXXc ahXhaacddc hdhdXXiaai
  • Stanza lengths: 10,10,10,10,10,10,
  • Metre: 10111010 0110111 10111010 0010101 1011010 10011010 1110001 10101000 10111100 1110101 11111110 1011101 10101110 0110111 10101010 11111010 0010101 10101010 01101000 1010111 111001110 1111100 11101100 1110101 11111010 11011010 1110101 11101010 1010100 1001101 10101010 1110001 10110010 1110101 10101110 0111100 1010001 10111010 0110101 001101 111000010 0010001 11101010 1010101 11101010 11101110 0011001 11111010 10111010 1011101 11111010 1110101 00100010 1011101 100101110 100101110 1011101 10101110 10101010 1011111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 60

Repeated words/phrases

must, we

Anaphora

we, sufferings, like