This is an analysis of Ave, Caesar! by William Ernest Henley.
From the winter's grey despair,
From the summer's golden languor,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXab cdecXedXb XXXab
- Stanza lengths: 4,9,5,
- Metre: 0010101 00101010 101001 11110 010001001 10111 1111111001 11110010 111101 1011 11111110 1111111 1001010 00010101 00010101 10111010 101001 1011110
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
from, into