Analysis of After
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
Like as a flamelet blanketed in smoke,
So through the anaesthetic shows my life;
So flashes and so fades my thought, at strife
With the strong stupor that I heave and choke
And sicken at, it is so foully sweet.
Faces look strange from space-and disappear.
Far voices, sudden loud, offend my ear -
And hush as sudden. Then my senses fleet:
All were a blank, save for this dull, new pain
That grinds my leg and foot; and brokenly
Time and the place glimpse on to me again;
And, unsurprised, out of uncertainty,
I wake-relapsing-somewhat faint and fain,
To an immense, complacent dreamery.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110001 1101111 1100111111 1011011101 010111111 101111001 1101010111 0111011101 1001111111 11110101 1001111101 01110100 1101011101 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 581 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 459 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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