This is an analysis of Let Us Be Drunk by William Ernest Henley.
Let us be drunk, and for a while forget,
Forget, and, ceasing even from regret,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabba aabCXaabbaC
- Stanza lengths: 5,11,
- Metre: 1101110101 0111010001 1011010101 10010100101 11110111111 1001010111 1101011001 1111110101 1101 01110101111 1111011101 1101010001 0101010101 1100110111 1101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
where, let
Anadiplosis
forget