This is an analysis of De M. Antonio by Robert Louis Stevenson.

NOW Antoninus, in a smiling age,
Counts of his life the fifteenth finished stage.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 1100000101 1001001101 0101101011 1111010101 01010011101 11110100111 1011011001 0100110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8

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