This is an analysis of The Tavern Of Last Times by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

At Box Hill, Surrey
A modern hour from London (as we spin…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X abbaabbabcXbcc
  • Stanza lengths: 1,14,
  • Metre: 11110 01010010111 00010101001 0111111001 0101010111 1011110101 1101110101 1101110101 1101011101 1101000111 1011010101 11010001110 0110011101 1101010101 1101010011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 15