This is an analysis of Grave by William Ernest Henley.

St. Margaret's bells,
Quiring their innocent, old-world canticles,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXbaacdebcedaccefggcfhehXhc
  • Stanza lengths: 27,
  • Metre: 11001 10110011100 100101 11011010100 0111001111 1000110101 10110010111 11110100111 1011010011 0101010111 101011110 00110110001 0101000101 10010011001 11110100111 110101110001 010101 1001010101 10011101 1011010111 1111110101 1110110001 1111000110 1111111111 1111110110 1101110111 1101111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 27

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

just