This is an analysis of Ballade Of Dead Actors by William Ernest Henley.
Where are the passions they essayed,
And where the tears they made to flow?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabaacXCbabaacaCbabaacaC
- Stanza lengths: 24,
- Metre: 110101100 11011101 10110101 11010111 10011101 11011101 11001101 00011111 110100111 01010111 01010101 010100011 01010101 01011100 01010101 00011111 01010101 01010101 01111101 01010001 110100111 01010101 01010111 00011111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
where, they, and
Anaphora
the
