This is an analysis of Christmas At Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson.
The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand;
The decks were like a slide, where a seaman scarce could stand;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb bbcc ddaa aabb eecc ffgg ffhh bbbb iiaa aaccXbbaa
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 0101011110101 0101011010111 01101001010101 11110100010101 1101010010101 111000101111111 110100111100001 11100101110101 11111101011101 11110101111101 11111100010111 1101110110101 11010101110111 110011111011101 111011101010101 101000100010101 01110101111101 0011001010100111 01010110101001 111110101010101 0101010100101001 101111111011001 0101010011101 101010101011111 11110101010101 11010100110101 111101001010101 11010101110101 11110111011101 001110111011101 110101110100101 00111010111101 1101111010101 11011101110101 10111011111101 101110101010101 11000101010110 101110101111101 101011100010001 1101010110101 111010110011111 11101011010101 11111100010101 111111011110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
and, we, all, head, tacked, day, his, as, of, '
Anaphora
the, all
