This is an analysis of Etching by William Ernest Henley.
Two and thirty is the ploughman.
He's a man of gallant inches,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXa bXXXXcaX caXXXcXb
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 11100010 10101010 10101110 101 10101110 10111110 1010111 101 10101010 10100110 1010001 101 10111010 10100010 10111011 110 10101010 11111010 00101111 101 11101010 10101010 0010101 001
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
and, his
Anaphora
and