This is an analysis of Life Is Bitter by William Ernest Henley.
Life is bitter. All the faces of the years,
Young and old, are gray with travail and with tears.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabaaBXaabaaB
- Stanza lengths: 13,
- Metre: 10101010000 11111001101 111010101001 001010101010 101010101010 111 10111010100 100111010101 11101110111 001110101010 111010101010 111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
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