This is an analysis of It Came With The Threat Of A Waning Moon by William Ernest Henley.
It came with the threat of a waning moon
And the wail of an ebbing tide,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXbXcXc abXbbcXc
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,
- Metre: 0100100101 10101101 1100101111 1100111 110111111 100111 10010001 110000 010100101 10101101 10110111 1110111 11101001001 1101001 111101111 00111100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 16
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