Analysis of Out Of The Night That Covers Me
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
| Scheme | ABAB CXCX XDXD EBEB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
| Metre | 11011101 11011111 1110111 1111 0011110 11111101 100111 11110101 01111101 11010101 01010101 1011101 11011101 11110001 11010111 11010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 526 |
| Words | 105 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 11, 2023
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