This is an analysis of My Wife by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,
With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabXb ccXcc ddece
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,
- Metre: 1010101 01011101 11111 011000 111 10101010 011111010 111101 01010 100 1010111 01010111 11111 01010 101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 15
