This is an analysis of After by William Ernest Henley.
Like as a flamelet blanketed in smoke,
So through the anaesthetic shows my life;…
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