This is an analysis of After by William Ernest Henley.

Like as a flamelet blanketed in smoke,
So through the anaesthetic shows my life;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbacddceXeXeX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 11010010001 1101000111 1101111111 0011011111 1101001101 1011011101 1101010111 1111011101 1001110111 1111111100 1101110101 11000100100 1101011111 0101010100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

so, and

Anaphora

so