This is an analysis of At Queensferry by William Ernest Henley.
The blackbird sang, the skies were clear and clean
We bowled along a road that curved a spine…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaabXcbcc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0101010111 1101011101 100101101 1101000101 1001111101 1101001101 0101110101 0111110101 10111101010 0111010101 11111101001 11011001110 01111000111 1101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
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