This is an analysis of Out Of The Night That Covers Me by William Ernest Henley.
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded fbfb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 10011101 11010101 11110110 1110001 00110101 11111101 10010001 11010101 01010111 11010001 11010000 11111101 01011101 11010001 11010011 11010011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
of, and
Anaphora
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