This is an analysis of House-Surgeon by William Ernest Henley.
Exceeding tall, but built so well his height
Half-disappears in flow of chest and limb;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacXbcXX
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0101111101 1101010111 1111010101 1111110111 11110010111 11010010101 10011010101 10110001101 0100111101 1111110101 001100110010 11000100101 1101010100 1101011000
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
frank, and, his
