This is an analysis of Ad Quintilianum by Robert Louis Stevenson.
O CHIEF director of the growing race,
Of Rome the glory and of Rome the grace,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddee
- Stanza lengths: 10,
- Metre: 1101000101 0101010101 1110011101 0101111101 1101011111 10111101001 0101010101 1101111101 01011111 1101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 10
Repeated words/phrases
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