This is an analysis of Know You The River Near To Grez by Robert Louis Stevenson.
KNOW you the river near to Grez,
A river deep and clear?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xabba cdccd XbeeX fgffg
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 11010101 010111 01010101 11010101 010101 11010101 110111 11101111 01010101 001101 01111110 111101 11010101 01010101 010111 11110101 011101 11111101 11111101 110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
river, from, to
Anaphora
she
