Analysis of One Woman's History
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
'The maiden free, the maiden wed.
Can never, never be the same,
A new life springs from out the dead.
And with the speaking of a name-
A breath upon the marriage bed,
She finds herself a something new.
'Where lay the shallows of the maid
No plummet line the wife can sound;
Where round the sunny islands played
The pulses of the great profound
Lies low the treacherous everglade.
'A wife is like an unknown sea,
Least known to him who thinks he knows
Where all the shores of Promise be,
And where the islands of Repose-
And where the rocks that he must flee.'
Scheme | ABABAX CDCDA EFEFE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010101 11010101 01111101 01010101 01010101 11010101 1101101 11010111 11010101 01010101 1101001 01111011 11111111 11011101 01010101 01011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 552 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 145 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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