This is an analysis of Ballade Of Midsummer Days And Nights by William Ernest Henley.
With a ripple of leaves and a tinkle of streams
The full world rolls in a rhythm of praise,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaAabXB aaaAabaB aaaAabaB X aAXB
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,1,4,
- Metre: 001001101001 0111001001 1011100111 11011101 011100101 10100100111 111100110 110111101 011100101 0111010111 011100111 11011101 0010100101 110111101 1101011011 110111101 10100100101 111100101 011110011 11011101 010010101 1010010101 100100101 110111101 10 10111110111 11011101 0111110111 110111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 29
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
the
