This is an analysis of Farewell by Robert Louis Stevenson.

FAREWELL, and when forth
I through the Golden Gates to Golden Isles…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXbbXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 10,
  • Metre: 11111 1101010101 1011010101 1011001001 101101011 11111101 1101111101 0101111111 1110101 101010
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 10

Repeated words/phrases

i

Anaphora

isle