This is an analysis of A Dainty Thing's The Villanelle by William Ernest Henley.
A DAINTY thing's the Villanelle,
Sly, musical, a jewel in rhyme,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaB baX baB baX baB baXB
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,4,
- Metre: 01010100 110001001 01010101 010100101 11010101 01010100 10110101 11010101 01010101 11110001 010101101 01010100 11010101 01011101 01010101 11011001 10010001 01010100 01010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 19
Repeated words/phrases
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