This is an analysis of Double Ballade On The Nothingness Of Things by William Ernest Henley.
The big teetotum twirls,
And epochs wax and wane…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbccdXdX abXbbccdadA abXbbcdXdX XbXbbccdXdA abXbbccdXdX abXbbccdXdX XccXddX
- Stanza lengths: 11,11,10,11,11,11,7,
- Metre: 011001 110111 110111 100111 010111 110101 010100 110111 01010100 100011 1010001000 011101 111111 1101001 110101 111111 011111 010101 110111 11010100 110101 11000100 110111 110001 1100010 111111 110111 110111 110111 11010000 010101 1010001000 110111 111101 011011 110101 101101 100101 110101 1101001 11101000 1101001 11000100 011111 111111 1100111 110111 101101 111111 110111 110111 110011000 010101 1010001000 100111 1001001 111111 010111 000101 111111 111111 101101 11011000 100111 1010001000 10 111101 100101 11011000 110101 110101 1010001000
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 72
Repeated words/phrases
and, or, we, for
Anaphora
or, we, for, one
Anadiplosis
curls
