This is an analysis of London Types: Bus Driver by William Ernest Henley.
He's called The General from the brazen craft
And dash with which he sneaks a bit of road…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdcdaeaeee
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 11010000101 1101110101 11011011110 1100010101 1101001111 01011101010 1101101111 010011111 11000010101 01001010101 11010100101 11011110101 1100010101 1111110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
he, with
Anaphora
and
