This is an analysis of Not To The Staring Day by William Ernest Henley.
Not to the staring Day,
For all the importunate questionings he pursues…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xabcadaefaaggcaba chhcccgXabicXjbkjbkacXb ggehecaahhhedljlgXaXfXXhaagbdji
- Stanza lengths: 17,23,31,
- Metre: 100101 1101000100101 0011001 1111011101 011100 1001011101 101110001 11010111 0100010101 11110101011 11110100 1001000101001 01110101001 01010010101 1101000101 11001 0101110101 1101 001010001 1001010101 100010001 0101110101 110111 01011101001 1111 01011100100 1001000100 1001010100 01010010101 11110110 1010010010111 11010001 010100001001 1100101010010 10110101 1101110001 01111110 1101010111 010101 10010010101 1101111101 01011101 01000100101 101101 100011000101 0011100101 11110001 0101010011 1101101 10010001001 111101 1101110001 1100100101001 0100101 100100001101 110100001 110101010101 01010000 00110111 10010100010 1111000111 1111000111 11000101 1111010 1001011110 010000 11010111 01001110101 010100 01000100100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 70
Repeated words/phrases
of, they, and
Anaphora
and, their, whose
Anadiplosis
night
