Analysis of There Is A Wheel Inside My Head
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
There is a wheel inside my head
Of wantonness and wine,
An old, cracked fiddle is begging without,
But the wind with scents of the sea is fed,
And the sun seems glad to shine.
The sun and the wind are akin to you,
As you are akin to June.
But the fiddle! . . . It giggles and twitters about,
And, love and laughter! who gave him the cue? -
He's playing your favourite tune.
| Scheme | ABCAB DECDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010111 1101 1111011001 1011110111 0011111 0100110111 1110111 10101100101 0101011101 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 372 |
| Words | 75 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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