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!
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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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