This is an analysis of Work While It Is Called To-Day by Lady Jane Wilde.
“No man hath hired us”—strong hands drooping,
Listless, falling in idleness down;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab acacbdbdeeeeeeefgbgbafafehehebebXi eibcbcjkjkgcgcihihgigikckcXlelgigi
- Stanza lengths: 4,34,34,
- Metre: 1111011110 101001001 1001010110 1110101 1111011110 1011101 0110101010 1111101101 101101001010 10100101 111011010010 111111111 11111010010 1101110101 11111011010 110100101 10110010110 1011001001 11101101010 1100100101 1111011010 10100100111 11101001010 1011101101 111010010 111110111 0111101010 1110110101 1111011110 1101111111 11110110110 110110101 0101011010 100111101 0101001110 11011111 10111001100 101010111 11010110010 101001001 10111001010 11110101 101011001110 111010101 11111101010 101011011 111011110 11110101 111001011110 1111111111 11100111010 111101011 11100111110 11100101 1001100010 010010101 11100101010 011101101 11111111110 10111001001 11011011011 11010111 111001111011 0110101111 110010011000 110110101 01110010110 110110101 01101111010 1011101111 1111111010 110011101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 72
Repeated words/phrases
of, your, my, our, men, we, to, and, as, in, work
Anaphora
our
