This is an analysis of You Played And Sang A Snatch Of Song by William Ernest Henley.
You played and sang a snatch of song,
A song that all-too well we knew;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd XeXefefe
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,
- Metre: 11110101 01111111 110110101 11010111 11010101 11010101 11011001 11010001 11000111 11110111 11111101 11010111 11010111 01010101 11010111 01110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
and, to, you
