This is an analysis of Etching by William Ernest Henley.

Two and thirty is the ploughman.
He's a man of gallant inches,…

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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