This is an analysis of Staff Nurse:Old Style by William Ernest Henley.
The greater masters of the commonplace,
REMBRANDT and good SIR WALTER-only these…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdecde
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0101000101 1110110101 11010101001 10110011001 0111000101 0111000111 0111110101 0111111101 1100110101 1001010101 101111010100 1011010101 0101010101 111101010100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and, her
Anaphora
the