This is an analysis of Block City by Robert Louis Stevenson.

What are you able to build with your blocks?
Castles and palaces, temples and docks.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eecc ddff
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1111001011 1011001011 1111011011 11101011011 101001001001 1101001011 01101101001 101011111011 1001001011 01001011001 11101011001 01111011001 0101011101 1001001011 11101011001 1011001011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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