Analysis of Interior
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
The gaunt brown walls
Look infinite in their decent meanness.
There is nothing of home in the noisy kettle,
The fulsome fire.
The atmosphere
Suggests the trail of a ghostly druggist.
Dressings and lint on the long, lean table -
Whom are they for?
The patients yawn,
Or lie as in training for shroud and coffin.
A nurse in the corridor scolds and wrangles.
It's grim and strange.
Far footfalls clank.
The bad burn waits with his head unbandaged.
My neighbour chokes in the clutch of chloral . . .
O, a gruesome world!
Scheme | XXAX XBAX XXXX XBAX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
Metre | 0111 1100011010 111011001010 01010 010 0101101010 1001101110 1111 0101 11101011010 01001001010 1101 111 01111111 11100111 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 509 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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