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

FOR these are sacred fishes all
Who know that lord that is the lord of all;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddcXXXeeff
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 11110101 1111100101 1001110101 1111100101 1101111111 1111010101 11011010101 11010010111 10111 11110111110 1101000101 0101110100 1111110001 1101010111 0111011111 1001010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

that, all, he

Epiphora

all