This is an analysis of Ballade Of Youth And Age by William Ernest Henley.
Spring at her height on a morn at prime,
Sails that laugh from a flying squall,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaBbcbC abaBbcbC abaBbcbC XXbBcC
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,6,
- Metre: 0110110111 11100101 101001001 100100111 10111111 110100101 010110101 110100101 11100101 11100101 0111101011 100100111 10100101 011100101 010010100 110100101 101110101 111001001 110101101 100100111 011100101 010100101 010010100 110100101 10 101111011 100100111 0100110101 110100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 29
Repeated words/phrases
of, that, and
Anaphora
a
