This is an analysis of A Good Play by Robert Louis Stevenson.
We built a ship upon the stairs
All made of the back-bedroom chairs,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaa aaXXbbXaabb
- Stanza lengths: 4,11,
- Metre: 11010101 11001111 11010110 010101010 110111001 110001001 111101101 1101010100 11011111 01010111 11011111 11010101 11111101 11111111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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