This is an analysis of Music by William Ernest Henley.

Down the quiet eve,
Thro' my window with the sunset…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcd XceX XXXX aecd XbXd bbcc Xbbc
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 10101 11100011 10101010 1010 11111 10001010 11101110 1110 10111 10110110 11101010 1110 00101 111001010 10101010 1110 11101 11101010 11101110 1110 10111 10110110 00101110 0010 10101 11101010 1010101 1010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

i

Anadiplosis

dreaming