This is an analysis of In Rotten Row by William Ernest Henley.
In Rotten Row a cigarette
I sat and smoked, with no regret…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabba aabCXaabbaC
- Stanza lengths: 5,11,
- Metre: 01010101 11110101 11010110 01000111 11011111 11110101 11010101 11110111 0101 01111101 01011111 110110101 11110111 01110101 0101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
two
