This is an analysis of Life In Her Creaking Shoes by William Ernest Henley.

Life in her creaking shoes
Goes, and more formal grows,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaAbcaCXbaaAacaC
  • Stanza lengths: 17,
  • Metre: 100101 111101 010111 111011 100101 100101 111101 110001 011101 110101 010101 111011 1111001 010001 0101111 110001
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Anadiplosis

blows