This is an analysis of It's Forth Across The Roaring Foam by Robert Louis Stevenson.
IT'S forth across the roaring foam, and on towards the west,
It's many a lonely league from home, o'er many a mountain crest,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddbb eebb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 01010101110101 01001010110100101 01010101010101 0101110010101 110111001110101 11011100110111 01111111011111 0110010010101 11111101110111 0101011110101 01011111110101 1101011010101 11011101110101 11110101011101 01010101111111 01010101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, been
Anaphora
it's, where
