This is an analysis of If I Were King by William Ernest Henley.
If I were king, my pipe should be premier.
The skies of time and chance are seldom clear,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabab abaCXababaC
- Stanza lengths: 5,11,
- Metre: 0101111001 0101111101 11010101110 0101110101 11111111010 1101110001 10011101110 1111110101 0101 1101111101 01011101010 0111010111 01010001010 11011100101 0101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
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