This is an analysis of In Charidemum by Robert Louis Stevenson.
YOU, Charidemus, who my cradle swung,
And watched me all the days that I was young;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddXXccee
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1100011101 1111011111 11110100101 1101010101 0101110011 11110101100 1001110111 1101111101 0101000111 110110100110 1101010101 1111001101 0111111111 1111011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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