This is an analysis of De Erotio Puella by Robert Louis Stevenson.
THIS girl was sweeter than the song of swans,
And daintier than the lamb upon the lawns…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccddeeff
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0111010101 1101010101 11010101001 010101001 01010010101 0011010101 01001111 111010001 0100011111 0101010101 011100111001 0101010101 1011000011 1111111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
of, her
Anaphora
the, her
