This is an analysis of The Rain And The Wind by William Ernest Henley.
The rain and the wind, the wind and the rain --
They are with us like a disease:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaab cbccb dedde
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,
- Metre: 0110101101 11011001 110011101 11101110101 1100101 110100101 11011001 01010101 10100100101 10100111 100101101 110110010 100111011 1010011111 10111010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
they, and
Anaphora
they, and

