This is an analysis of Escape At Bedtime by Robert Louis Stevenson.

The lights from the parlour and kitchen shone out
Through the blinds and the windows and bars;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ebebbfbf
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 01001011011 101101011 11101111001 101001001 11011001101 101001101 101001111011 111011001 01101101011 101001011 11001101101 101101011 11111111101 111111001 101011011011 101101011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

and, of, they, me

Anaphora

there