This is an analysis of Casualty by William Ernest Henley.
As with varnish red and glistening
Dripped his hair; his feet looked rigid;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbc dbeX XaXX dcaX eXXX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 101011100 10101110 11101011 11101010 11100110 10101010 01101110 11101111 11111110 100000010 001001100 11100010 00111010 11111010 10100110 101011010 11101011 10101010 11101011 10111110
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
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