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;…

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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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