This is an analysis of Prelude by Robert Louis Stevenson.

BY sunny market-place and street
Wherever I go my drum I beat,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXd cceeXddcc
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,9,
  • Metre: 11010111 010111111 10101101101 010100111 11011101 110011101 10101101110 010111001 11110111 010110101 10100111011 110100101 11110011 110010111 10101100101 111101001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

i, my, to