Analysis of That's The Way

Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919



Just a little every day-
That's the way!
Seeds in darkness swell and grow,
Tiny blades push through the snow;
Never any flower of May
Leaps to blossom in a burst,
Slowly, slowly, as the first,
That's the way.
Just a little every day.

Just a little every day-
That's the way,
Children learn to read and write
Bit by bit and mite by mite,
Never any one I say
Leaps to knowledge and its power;
Slowly, slowly, hour by hour,
That's the way!
Just a little every day.


Scheme AAbbaccAA AAddaeeAA
Poetic Form
Metre 10101001 101 1010101 1011101 10101011 1110001 1010101 101 10101001 10101001 101 1011101 1110111 1010111 11100110 101010110 101 10101001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 452
Words 91
Sentences 6
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 9, 9
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 175
Words per stanza (avg) 45
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 08, 2023

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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