This is an analysis of Waiting by William Ernest Henley.
A square, squat room (a cellar on promotion),
Drab to the soul, drab to the very daylight;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXb cXXb Xabc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 01110101010 10011001011 1001001001010 10111100001 11010100110 10111100010 11110101110 1111110111 11010101011 01111101011 01110101110 1011010101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Anaphora
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