This is an analysis of Before by William Ernest Henley.
Behold me waiting-waiting for the knife.
A little while, and at a leap I storm…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaaccadedfef
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0111010101 0101110111 0111000101 0101010101 0110011111 11001010111 0100110111 1011110101 11110010101 11010111010 1111100101 11010111110 11001101010 11010101010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
i
Anaphora
the
