Analysis of Recompense
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
Straight through my heart this fact to-day,
By Truth’s own hand is driven:
God never takes one thing away,
But something else is given.
I did not know in earlier years,
This law of love and kindness;
I only mourned through bitter tears
My loss, in sorrow’s blindness.
But, ever following each regret
O’er some departed treasure,
My sad repining heart was met
With unexpected pleasure.
I thought is only happened so;
But time this truth taught me –
No least thing from my life can go,
But something else is brought to me.
It is the Law, complete, sublime;
And now, with Faith unshaken,
In patience I but bide my time
When any joy is taken.
No matter if the crushing blow
May for the moment down me,
Still, back of it waits Love, I know
With some new gift to crown me.
Scheme | ABAB XCXC DEDE FGFG HBHB FGFG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111111 1111110 11011101 1101110 111101001 1111010 11011101 1101010 110100101 1101010 111111 101010 11110101 111111 11111111 11011111 11010101 0111010 01011111 1101110 11010101 1101011 11111111 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 782 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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