This is an analysis of Nocturn by William Ernest Henley.
At the barren heart of midnight,
When the shadow shuts and opens…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbc XXbX aadd Xccd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 10101011 10111110 10111110 11101010 10100010 101010100 101010010 00100010 10100111 10100010 11101010 00100010 10101110 11101110 10101110 00110010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
listen, drip