This is an analysis of Double Ballad Of Life And Death by William Ernest Henley.
Fools may pine, and sots may swill,
Cynics gibe, and prophets rail,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaaabaB aaaaabaBXaaaaabaB
- Stanza lengths: 8,17,
- Metre: 1111111 1011101 1001111 1011101 1011111 1010101 1010101 10100101 1010111 1010111 1000101 1011101 1000101 1110111 1110101 10100101 1011101 1011101 1010111 1010011 10100101 10101001 1010101 10100101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
and, may, s
Anaphora
what
