This is an analysis of O, Falmouth Is A Fine Town by William Ernest Henley.
O Falmouth is a fine town with ships in the bay,
And I wish from my heart it's there I was to-day;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbAAAX ccXXD eeffD ccaXAAAX
- Stanza lengths: 8,5,5,8,
- Metre: 110001101001 111011011101 110111110101 100110110011 10111011100 110110110101 1011011010101 111010011 0101010010101 001101111101 11111110101010 10101011110101 10111 1000011110101 100001111101 0011011010101 1110101101101 10111 1101010010001 1101010011101 1011111011101 10101110011 10111011100 110110110101 1011011010101 111010011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 26
Repeated words/phrases
my, i, from, home, and, his, to, it, our
