This is an analysis of Operation by William Ernest Henley.
You are carried in a basket,
Like a carcase from the shambles,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abac bXbX ddXd cXeX fbXaXefcf
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11100010 10100010 00100011 11111010 11111111 11110010 10100010 11101110 11111110 00101010 10101111 10101010 1101110110 11111000 11101011 11101110 101111100 11101010 11101110 01100010 10101011 11111010 10100010 101010100
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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