This is an analysis of London Types: Drum-Major by William Ernest Henley.
Who says Drum-Major says a man of mould,
Shaking the meek earth with tremendous tread,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbccXcXdd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111010101 1001100101 1101010001 0011111101 0101010101 0101010111 0001010001 0001010111 01001110101 1111110001 0110110111 010000111011 1101011111 1111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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