This is an analysis of Friends.... Old Friends...... by William Ernest Henley.
Friends… old friends…
One sees how it ends.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AababaXXccaA AadedeffccaAXAafefeaaccaA
- Stanza lengths: 12,25,
- Metre: 111 11101 0101 1011 10101 10101 10010 11000 0111 11001 1101 01 111 11001 11101 11101 01101 01101 101101 11011 11011 11001 10101 01 111 101101 1101 01111 10101 11011 1111 01001 1101 11101 1001 01
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
and, it
Anaphora
and, it
Epiphora
friends
Anadiplosis
friends
