This is an analysis of In Lupum by Robert Louis Stevenson.
BEYOND the gates thou gav'st a field to till;
I have a larger on my window-sill.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaaaeefffXXeeeddaa
- Stanza lengths: 26,
- Metre: 0101110101 1101011101 0111000101 1111111101 1111011101 1101010001 1110010101 1111010101 0101010101 1111010001 11110000101 1101001 1111011101 11001010100 11110100101 1011010001 1101010001 1101010100 1111011110 1111010101 111001101 1111010001 0101010101 1111010001 100111111001 1111111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 26
Repeated words/phrases
and, one
Anaphora
huge
Epiphora
mole
