This is an analysis of On The Way To Kew by William Ernest Henley.

On the way to Kew,
By the river old and gray,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ABaabaccDa BaaAbaccDa aaBbaaeeDA
  • Stanza lengths: 10,10,10,
  • Metre: 10101 1010111 100101 1111001 110101 011101 010101 1101001 101010 11101 1010111 0010101 101101 10101 110101 011101 110101 101111 101010 11101 0010101 11101 1010111 1000101 11111 10001 101101 1111101 101010 10101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

ghost, i

Anaphora

a