This is an analysis of Suicide by William Ernest Henley.
Staring corpselike at the ceiling,
See his harsh, unrazored features,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcX XXXd eXeX cadb XeXX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 101001010 101100010 10101010 10111010 10111010 01001010 10100010 10111010 11110010 111011100 11101011 11111111 10101110 00111110 10111010 11111010 00111110 11101110 10101110 11101110
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, his
