Analysis of Anterotics

William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)



Laughs the happy April morn
Thro' my grimy, little window,
And a shaft of sunshine pushes
Thro' the shadows in the square.

Dogs are tracing thro' the grass,
Crows are cawing round the chimneys,
In and out among the washing
Goes the West at hide-and-seek.

Loud and cheerful clangs the bell.
Here the nurses troop to breakfast.
Handsome, ugly, all are women . . .
O, the Spring--the Spring--the Spring!


Scheme XXXX XXAX XXXA
Poetic Form
Metre 1010101 11101010 0011110 101001 1110101 1111010 00101010 1011101 1010101 10101110 10101110 1010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 397
Words 69
Sentences 9
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 102
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 27, 2023

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William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley was an English poet, critic and editor, best remembered for his 1875 poem "Invictus". more…

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