Analysis of Scrubber
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
She's tall and gaunt, and in her hard, sad face
With flashes of the old fun's animation
There lowers the fixed and peevish resignation
Bred of a past where troubles came apace.
She tells me that her husband, ere he died,
Saw seven of their children pass away,
And never knew the little lass at play
Out on the green, in whom he's deified.
Her kin dispersed, her friends forgot and gone,
All simple faith her honest Irish mind,
Scolding her spoiled young saint, she labours on:
Telling her dreams, taking her patients' part,
Trailing her coat sometimes: and you shall find
No rougher, quainter speech, nor kinder heart.
Scheme | ABBACDDCEFGHFH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101000111 1101011010 11001010010 1101110101 1111010111 1101110101 0101010111 110101110 0101010101 1101010101 100111111 1001100101 1001010111 110111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 613 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 487 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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