This is an analysis of Ad Nepotem by Robert Louis Stevenson.
O NEPOS, twice my neigh(b)our (since at home
We're door by door, by Flora's temple dome;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccd eX XeeX Xd ffgg
- Stanza lengths: 7,2,4,2,4,
- Metre: 1101110111 1111110101 1001011111 0111010111 1101010111 1101010011 1101111001 1110010101 11010 110101100 1101000101 1111010101 1011110111 1101111100 100 1111010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 19
Repeated words/phrases
by, thy, image, and
Anaphora
thy