This is an analysis of Children: Private Ward by William Ernest Henley.
Here in this dim, dull, double-bedded room,
I play the father to a brace of boys,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaXccXddebbe
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1001110101 1101000101 10111100101 1011010111 1001000101 1111101101 1011110101 0101010001 1111111111 1111110101 11010100010 11010100111 10110000111 10011101110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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