This is an analysis of Picture-Books In Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Summer fading, winter comes--
Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbB ddbB eebBXaabb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 1010101 10101001 1010101 1010101 1010101 1111101 1110101 0010101 1010111 1010101 1110111 0010101 1111111 1110111 1010101 0010101 1110111 1010101 10101001 1010101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

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