... ;fell clutch of circumstance" he finds himself in is continued and completed in his last stanza. Henley, well aware of the theological implications of blasphemy resorts to persecuting the Christian concepts of repentance, judgement and afterlife. Henley's use of hyperbaton emphasises his disregard for "how striate the gate" of Heaven is for him, and he adds to the ... ...

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