This is an analysis of A Good Boy by Robert Louis Stevenson.

I woke before the morning, I was happy all the day,
I never said an ugly word, but smiled and stuck to play.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd ee
  • Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,2,
  • Metre: 11010101110101 11011101111101 11110101010101 11110101111100 11010111010111 111010101110111 11110101110101 11011111110111 11011101110001 11010100011101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 10

Repeated words/phrases

i, and, my

Anaphora

i, and