This is an analysis of It Blows A Snowing Gale by Robert Louis Stevenson.
IT blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year;
The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXbbX
- Stanza lengths: 6,
- Metre: 0101010010001 0111011011101 0100010010011 010101010001 10111 010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 6
Repeated words/phrases
of, on
Anaphora
the
