Question

Which subgenre of poetry does this passage belong to?

Answer 1

In Hospital

by William Ernest Henley

Two and thirty is the ploughman.
He's a man of gallant inches,
And his hair is close and curly,
And his beard;
But his face is wan and sunken,
And his eyes are large and brilliant,
And his shoulder-blades are sharp,
And his knees.

Answer 2

sonnet


free verse


limerick


ballad