This is an analysis of Last Post by William Ernest Henley.
THE day's high work is over and done,
And these no more will need the sun:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaBbacddccddBbed ffBbfcddddddBbed
- Stanza lengths: 16,16,
- Metre: 011101011 11110101 11100101 1111111 100100111 1001011010 10100111 11110011 100100111 01011111 11010000111 10110010111 11100101 100100101 110110001010 1110010101 11111111 111100101 11100101 10110101111 1010101011 1111101010 011101101 1011100101 0010011111 11101111 1001001001001 1111110111 11100101 1110100101 101100101010 101100101101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
and, blow, of, they
Anaphora
and, glory