Analysis of Friends.... Old Friends......
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
Friends… old friends…
One sees how it ends.
A woman looks
Or a man lies,
And the pleasant brooks
And the quiet skies,
Ruined with brawling
And caterwauling,
Enchant no more
As they did before,
And so it ends
With friends.
Friends… old friends…
And what if it ends?
Shall we dare to shirk
What we live to learn?
It has done its work,
It has served its turn;
And, forgive and forget
Or hanker and fret,
We can be no more
As we were before.
When it ends, it ends
With friends.
Friends… old friends…
So it breaks, so it ends.
There let it rest!
It has fought and won,
And is still the best
That either has done.
Each as he stands
The work of its hands
Which shall be more
As he was before?…
What is it ends
With friends?
Scheme | AabcbcddeeaA AafgfghheeaA AaijijkkeeaA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 11111 0101 1011 00101 00101 10110 01 0111 11101 0111 11 111 01111 11111 11111 11111 11111 001001 11001 11111 11001 11111 11 111 111111 1111 11101 01101 11011 1111 01111 1111 11101 1111 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 703 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 12, 12 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 182 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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