This is an analysis of Bring Her Again, O Western Wind by William Ernest Henley.

Bring her again, O western wind,
Over the western sea!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 10011101 100101 10101111 100101 11010111 110110 10111101 100101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

and, that

Anaphora

not