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;…

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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