This is an analysis of Ad Se Ipsum by Robert Louis Stevenson.

DEAR sir, good-morrow! Five years back,
When you first girded for this arduous track,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbcc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 11010101 11110101001 11010010010 0101001101 1111010101 1011111111 1100101111 01110011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8