This is an analysis of My Treasures by Robert Louis Stevenson.

These nuts, that I keep in the back of the nest,
Where all my tin soldiers are lying at rest,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd bbee ffee
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11111001001 11111011011 0100101111 001001101001 01011111001 101001101001 001001001011 0111101101 01001101011 101011011101 111001111011 111001001001 10111001001 111011001101 11001011011 101111001001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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