Analysis of Listen!
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
Whoever you are as you read this,
Whatever your trouble or grief,
I want you to know and to heed this:
The day draweth near with relief.
No sorrow, no woe is unending,
Though heaven seems voiceless and dumb;
So sure as your cry is ascending,
So surely an answer will come.
Whatever temptation is near you,
Whose eyes on this simple verse fall;
Remember good angels will hear you
And help you to stand, if you call.
Though stunned with despair I beseech you,
Whatever your losses, your need,
Believe, when these printed words reach you,
Believe you were born to succeed.
You are stronger, I tell you, this minute,
Than any unfortunate fate!
And the coveted prize - you can win it;
While life lasts 'tis never too late!
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF EGEG XHXH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 010111111 1011011 111110111 0111101 110111010 11011001 111111010 11011011 10010111 11111011 010110111 01111111 111011011 1011011 011110111 01101101 1110111110 11001001 0010011111 11111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 730 |
Words | 133 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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