Analysis of Earthly Pride
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
How baseless is the mightiest earthly pride,
The diamond is but charcoal purified,
The lordliest pearl that decks a monarch’s breast
Is but an insect’s sepulchre at best.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11010100101 01011110 01111011 1111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 188 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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