This is an analysis of Scrubber by William Ernest Henley.
She's tall and gaunt, and in her hard, sad face
With flashes of the old fun's animation…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbacddcbcbece
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111100111 01000111010 110011101010 1001110101 1111010111 1100110101 1101010111 1101011101 0101010111 1101010101 1001111101 1001100101 1001011111 1101011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and, her
