This is an analysis of Keepsake Mill by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Over the borders, a sin without pardon,
Breaking the branches and crawling below,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cece cfcf adad XgXg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 10010010110 1001011001 11010010010 1101001011 10010010010 1001001001 10010011010 1001011001 10010110110 1001001101 10111010010 1101001001 01111010010 1101111001 11110110110 1101001101 11010110010 1011011011 11110111010 1011011001 100111111100 1011001001 1001111101000 1111101001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
here, with, of, stiller, and, wheel, home
Anaphora
here, wheel
Anadiplosis
stiller
