This is an analysis of London Types: Barmaid by William Ernest Henley.
Though, if you ask her name, she says 'Elise,'
Being plain Elizabeth, e'en let it pass,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xabaacacbdbdbb
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 10110111100 101010010101 11100101111 1101010101 10001010111 11001110111 0101010101 1101010001 0101011001 01011001101 1001111111 0101000101 1101011100 1101111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and, her, she
Anaphora
and
