This is an analysis of From A Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaaaeeff
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 1011010110 1011010110 11001110010 11011010110 1001001101 1111101 11001001011 1010101 1001110110 1101110010 100111110 11001110010 1001101001 10010111 11001110010 10111010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16

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