This is an analysis of Interior by William Ernest Henley.

The gaunt brown walls
Look infinite in their decent meanness.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXbX cXbc ddaX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 0111 1100011010 101001001010 01010 0101 0101001010 1011101110 1111 0101 11101011110 01001001110 0111 1101 01110011000 1101001010 10101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

the