Analysis of A World Worth Living In

Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919



One who claims that he knows about it
Tells me the earth is a vale of sin;
But I and the bees, and the birds we doubt it,
And think it a world worth living in.
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Whatever you want, if you wish for it long,
With constant yearning and ceaseless desire,
If your wish soars upward on wings so strong
That they never grow languid, never tire,
Why, over the storm cloud and out of the dark
It will come flying some day to you,
As the dove with the olive branch flew to the ark,
And the wish you've been dreaming,
it will come true.


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Poetic Form
Metre 111111011 110110111 11001001111 011011100 1 1011111111 11010010010 1111101111 11101101010 11001101101 111101111 101101011101 0011110 1111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 525
Words 109
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 403
Words per stanza (avg) 107
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 13, 2023

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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