This is an analysis of My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson.
From Child's Garden of Verses
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X aabb ccdd aaaa eebb
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 0110010 11010111101101 11100101011111 101010110011001 111110111110011 010010110011101 111110101011101 1101111011100101 110111101110111 11010100110101 1110101010100101 11110111010111 11101011111101 1101010010111 111101011100101 111010111110101 11110111110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 17
Repeated words/phrases
of, he, to
