Analysis of Envoy--To Charles Baxter
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
Do you remember
That afternoon--that Sunday afternoon! -
When, as the kirks were ringing in,
And the grey city teemed
With Sabbath feelings and aspects,
LEWIS--our LEWIS then,
Now the whole world's--and you,
Young, yet in shape most like an elder, came,
Laden with BALZACS
(Big, yellow books, quite impudently French),
The first of many times
To that transformed back-kitchen where I lay
So long, so many centuries -
Or years is it!--ago?
Dear CHARLES, since then
We have been friends, LEWIS and you and I,
(How good it sounds, 'LEWIS and you and I!'):
Such friends, I like to think,
That in us three, LEWIS and me and you,
Is something of that gallant dream
Which old DUMAS--the generous, the humane,
The seven-and-seventy times to be forgiven! -
Dreamed for a blessing to the race,
The immortal Musketeers.
Our ATHOS rests--the wise, the kind,
The liberal and august, his fault atoned,
Rests in the crowded yard
There at the west of Princes Street. We three -
You, I, and LEWIS!--still afoot,
Are still together, and our lives,
In chime so long, may keep
(God bless the thought!)
Unjangled till the end.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 1011101 11010100 001101 1101001 1010101 101101 1101111101 1011 1101111 011101 1101110111 11110100 111101 1111 1111100101 1111100101 111111 1011100101 11011101 11100100001 0100100111010 11010101 001001 10110101 0100010111 100101 1101110111 11010101 110100101 011111 1101 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,081 |
Words | 198 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 10, 9 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 280 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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