Analysis of We Flash Across The Level
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
We flash across the level.
We thunder thro' the bridges.
We bicker down the cuttings.
We sway along the ridges.
A rush of streaming hedges,
Of jostling lights and shadows,
Of hurtling, hurrying stations,
Of racing woods and meadows.
We charge the tunnels headlong -
The blackness roars and shatters.
We crash between embankments -
The open spins and scatters.
We shake off the miles like water,
We might carry a royal ransom;
And I think of her waiting, waiting,
And long for a common hansom.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XXXA XCXC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101010 1101010 1101010 1101010 0111010 1100101 11010010 110101 110101 0101010 1101010 010101 11101110 111001010 011101010 01101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 485 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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