This is an analysis of Back-View by William Ernest Henley.
I watched you saunter down the sand:
Serene and large, the golden weather…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacccccc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 11110101 011101010 1100111110 1100011001 11011111 110110010 101101110 11110101 11111101 011101010 01111101 01010100 111111010 01010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Anaphora
the