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,…

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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