This is an analysis of My House, I Say by Robert Louis Stevenson.

My house, I say. But hark to the sunny doves
That make my roof the arena of their loves,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccaadd
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 11111100101 11110010011 1101010111 11010011001 1111110101 1101010101 1101110101 01010010101 1101111100 11010010100 1101011101 1011010001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

that, and