Analysis of It Came With The Threat Of A Waning Moon
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
It came with the threat of a waning moon
And the wail of an ebbing tide,
But many a woman has lived for less,
And many a man has died;
For life upon life took hold and passed,
Strong in a fate set free,
Out of the deep into the dark
On for the years to be.
Between the gloom of a waning moon
And the song of an ebbing tide,
Chance upon chance of love and death
Took wing for the world so wide.
O, leaf out of leaf is the way of the land,
Wave out of wave of the sea
And who shall reckon what lives may live
In the life that we bade to be?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110110101 00111101 1100101111 0100111 110111101 100111 11010101 110111 010110101 00111101 10111101 1110111 11111101101 1111101 011101111 00111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 531 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 205 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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