This is an analysis of We Are The Choice Of The Will by William Ernest Henley.
We are the Choice of the Will: God, when He gave the word
That called us into line, set in our hand a sword;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd ee ff XXg hh aa gg gag ii hh jj
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,2,2,3,2,2,2,3,2,2,2,
- Metre: 1101000111101 111001101101 110101111111 11110010010001 111110100101 11001110100001 1011010101001 111000111100101 1010101001110 10001101000110 1110111110101 1110011110111 11010010010110 10 0101001010011 110101100101 100101000100101 101001011001001 10100101011111 101100110100101 101010010101 10100101001000010 101001010010011 10 11111110101111 10101101100101 101010011111101 101011010100111 1010001011111 0111111011101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
of, us, we, to, and
Anaphora
and
