Analysis of Voice of the Voiceless
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
I am the Voice of the Voiceless
Through me the dumb shall speak
Till the world's deaf ear be made to hear
The wrongs of the wordless weak.
Oh shame on the mothers of mortals
Who do not stoop to teach
The sorrow that lies in dear dumb eyes
The sorrow that has no speech.
From street, from cage, from kennel
From stable and from zoo
The wall of my tortured kin proclaims the sin
Of the mighty against the frail.
But I am my brother's keeper
And I shall fight their fight
And speak the word for beast and bird
Till the world shall set things right.
| Scheme | ABCBDEFEGHIJKLML |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011010 110111 101111111 0110101 111010110 111111 010110111 0101111 1111110 110011 01111010101 10100101 11111010 011111 01011101 1011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 553 |
| Words | 110 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 430 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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