Analysis of Praise The Generous Gods
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
Praise the generous gods for giving
In a world of wrath and strife,
With a little time for living,
Unto all the joy of life.
At whatever source we drink it,
Art or life or faith or wine,
In whatever terms we think it,
It is common and divine.
Praise the high gods, for in giving
This for man, and this alone,
They have made his chance for living
Shine the equal of their own.
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD AEAE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 101001110 0011101 10101110 1010111 1101111 1111111 0101111 1110001 10111010 1110101 11111110 1010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 372 |
| Words | 77 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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