This is an analysis of Henry James by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Who comes to-night? We open the doors in vain.
Who comes? My bursting walls, can you contain…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeaaff
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 11011100101 1111011101 0100110101 11010101011 1001010101 11110100101 0111010111 100101111001 1010011011 10111100111 0111011101 1110010100 1101011101 1101011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

who