This is an analysis of Madam Life's A Piece In Bloom by William Ernest Henley.

Madam Life's a piece in bloom
Death goes dogging everywhere:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eeee bfbf
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1010101 1110101 1010001 1010101 1110101 1111111 1111001 1111101 00100111 1010011 1110101 1010101 1110101 1111111 1001101 1110101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

you

Anaphora

you