This is an analysis of London Types: Flower-Girl by William Ernest Henley.

There's never a delicate nurseling of the year
But our huge London hails it, and delights…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcXccdcdee
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1100100100001 1111010101 0101011101 0101011101 1011011100 11110101010 11111110100 01011001010 0101110101 100010001010 010110101111 11110111010 010010101010 11111001010
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

her, and