Analysis of Kate-A-Whimsies, John-A-Dream
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
Kate-a-Whimsies, John-a-Dream
Still debating, still delay,
And the world’s a ghost that gleams –
Wavers – vanishes away!
We must live while live we can;
We should love while love we may.
Dread in women, doubt in men…
So the Infinite runs away.
| Scheme | XAXA XAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 101101 1010101 0010111 110001 1111111 1111111 1010101 10100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 252 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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