This is an analysis of Trees And The Menace Of Night by William Ernest Henley.
Trees and the menace of night;
Then a long, lonely, leaden mere…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbcbdaefd adcfbfe XbdbfXaXadfbf
- Stanza lengths: 10,7,13,
- Metre: 1101001 10110101 1101001 1101010011 1101000001 0111010001 11001010001 0111010101 0111010101 110101101000 10010101 110100001 00010001 101001001 10010101000 10110001001 011111 101000 0010111100 0110010101 01000111101 101101 10010001 0111110001 10100111 100111 0101010101 1001010101 101010100001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 29
Repeated words/phrases
of, dead
Anaphora
a
Anadiplosis
night
