This is an analysis of There's A Regret by William Ernest Henley.
There's a regret
So grinding, so immitigably sad,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abba cddc deed feef ghhg aeeX ciic
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1001 1101100001 01111100101 111101 1101 111110111 11111010011 0101101 1111 0111010111 0101011111 110111 1111 0101101111 01111111001 111111 1011 1111110101 01110010101 101111 10111 1111111100 10011111001 00010010 1101 1101010111 01111100101 0011001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
and, you
Anaphora
death, and, his
