This is an analysis of London Types: Beef-Eater by William Ernest Henley.
His beat lies knee-high through a dust of story-
A dust of terror and torture, grief and crime;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcddeXebb
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 01111101010 01010110111 111101011110 1111110011 010110001 0100110111 01110011000 1101011101 1111011101 11110101010 111101001010 11010101010 11110100111 0111111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
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