This is an analysis of There Is A Wheel Inside My Head by William Ernest Henley.

There is a wheel inside my head
Of wantonness and wine,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcab dbcdb
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,
  • Metre: 10010111 010011 1111001001 1010100101 1011101 0110110101 1110101 101001011001 1111011101 11011001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 10

Repeated words/phrases

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