This is an analysis of Long Time I Lay In Little Ease by Robert Louis Stevenson.

LONG TIME I LAY IN LITTLE EASE

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a aXaX baba cdcd eXef gfgf bfbX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11110101 11110101 1110100 010010101 01100100 110001001 1100110 11010101 1100010 010011101 1000010 01000101 0110010 111011101 1101010 01010001 1100010 11010111 1101110 11010101 1000110 11010101 0101010 10110001 10101100
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 26

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

now, and