Analysis of Morning Prayer
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
Let me to-day do something that shall take
A little sadness from the world’s vast store,
And may I be so favoured as to make
Of joy’s too scanty sum a little more.
Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed
Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend;
Nor would I pass, unseeing, worthy need,
Or sin by silence when I should defend.
However meagre be my worldly wealth,
Let me give something that shall aid my kind –
A word of courage, or a thought of health,
Dropped as I pass for troubled hearts to find.
Let me to-night look back across the span
‘Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say –
Because of some good act to beast or man –
“The world is better that I lived today.”
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGHGH |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
Metre | 1111110111 0101010111 011111111 1111010101 1111110101 1101011111 11111101 1111011101 10111101 1111011111 0111010111 1111110111 1111110101 1101011101 0111111111 0111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 702 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 521 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 135 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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