This is an analysis of As One Who Having Wandered All Night Long by Robert Louis Stevenson.

AS one who having wandered all night long
In a perplexed forest, comes at length…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd cecefgfg fcfchXhg
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
  • Metre: 1111010111 000110111 00110010101 1101100001 00101000111 10010111001 0101010111 110111111101 1110010111 1101010111 11011101001 0101010101 1011011001 0100010101 0111010101 1001001000101 1101010101 1110010111 0101010111 0101010011 1011010111 00110010110 1011110111 100101010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

in, and, of

Anaphora

in, i