Analysis of Warning
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
High in the heavens I saw the moon this morning,
Albeit the sun shone bright;
Unto my soul it spoke, in voice of warning,
‘Remember Night! ’
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 100101101110 0100111 10111101110 0101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 163 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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