This is an analysis of Foreign Children by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Little Indian, Sioux, or Crow,
Little frosty Eskimo,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ABXC dddd eeff gghhABXC
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,8,
  • Metre: 10100111 1010101 101110 11111101 1110101 1010101 1110101 11010111 1010101 1011111 1110111 11010001 11100101 1111101 1110101 11111111 10100111 1010101 101110 11111101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

little

Anaphora

little