This is an analysis of Ad Olum by Robert Louis Stevenson.

CALL me not rebel, though { here at every word
{in what I sing…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababaaXXccddX
  • Stanza lengths: 13,
  • Metre: 111101111001 0111 0111011111 111 1101110111 1101110111 0111110111 10111010011 00101010101 11010111101 11010100101 1101010101 1111110110
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 13

Repeated words/phrases

i, and

Anadiplosis

lord