This is an analysis of My Ship And I by Robert Louis Stevenson.
O it's I that am the captain of a tidy little ship,
Of a ship that goes a sailing on the pond;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xabba Xcddc Xdeed
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,
- Metre: 101110100010101 00111010101 111010101011101 110010101110101 10111010101 111010101010101 10101010101 101010110010111 001010101010101 101010111 101111101010101 11101010101 101010100010101 01010101110101 101001010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
ship, to, i, dive, and
Anaphora
and
