This is an analysis of The Labyrinth by Henry King.
Life is a crooked Labyrinth, and we
Are daily lost in that Obliquity.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbbbbbbaXbbccbbccccddeecXccddffXXccddXXcc
- Stanza lengths: 42,
- Metre: 1001010111 1101011000 100110011 1011011101 1001010010 1001010011 11011111100 1111011101 11000010101 1001010100 1001011101 0011010111 1001010101 1111011111 1011110111 1101011101 1101111101 1111110101 11011010101 1001110101 1110111101 100100010 1111111101 1101011100 11001110101 1111011100 0100111110 10010011101 1111011101 1111110101 1111110111 1101100101 111010111 1101010010 1111001101 1101000101 1101010101 1101110100 1111111101 1101110101 11101111111 1101011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 42
Repeated words/phrases
our, to, and, we