Analysis of The Winds of Fate
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
One ship drives east and another drives west
With the selfsame winds that blow.
Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales
Which tells us the way to go.
Like the winds of the seas are the ways of fate,
As we voyage along through the life:
Tis the set of a soul
That decides its goal,
And not the calm or the strife.
| Scheme | ABCCBDEFFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 1111001011 101111 101101 0101 1110111 10110110111 111001101 101101 1111 0101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 315 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 244 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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