This is an analysis of In Fisherrow by William Ernest Henley.
A hard north-easter fifty winters long
Has bronzed and shrivelled sere her face and neck;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdccdc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0111010101 11110010111 0111110101 0101011111 0111011101 0111010101 01110010101 1111111101 0111011101 10010101110 01001010001 10110010101 11010111010 1000011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
her, and
Anaphora
her
