Analysis of The Pessimist
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
The pessimist locust, last to leaf,
Though all the world is glad, still talks of grief.
| Scheme | AA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 010010111 1101111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 96 |
| Words | 18 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2 |
| Lines Amount | 2 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 68 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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