This is an analysis of The Ways Of Death Are Soothing And Serene by William Ernest Henley.
The ways of Death are soothing and serene,
And all the words of Death are grave and sweet.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ABba abaBXabbaA
- Stanza lengths: 4,10,
- Metre: 0101110101 1101011111 01110101101 1101111110 0101010111 1111111111 0101110101 1101011111 11110000101 11001010111 0101110101 0101001101 0101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 13
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
the
