This is an analysis of De Ligurra by Robert Louis Stevenson.
YOU fear, Ligurra - above all, you long -
That I should smite you with a stinging song.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc XXcc
- Stanza lengths: 6,4,
- Metre: 1110001111 1111100101 0101011111 1101110111 0101010101 1111010101 1011010101 0111110101 1101110101 1000111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 10
Repeated words/phrases
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