This is an analysis of To: W A by William Ernest Henley.
Or ever the knightly years were gone
With the old world to the grave,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcdcd abab XaXaXaXabab
- Stanza lengths: 4,6,4,11,
- Metre: 110010001 0011001 11010101 1100101 11111111 111111 111111101 1110101 10111111 111111 1010011111 110101 011010101 0011001 011100111 1010101 01010111 1111101 111111110 1111101 11111011101 010101 111010101 1100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
i, and
Anaphora
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