This is an analysis of Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson.

I WILL make you brooches and toys for your delight
Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccaa dddX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 101110111101 01111011111 10101011111 01101011111 101110111111 11101011101 1111110111101 01111011011 1010110111101 01111001101 1101010110101 0011110101110
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

and, at, your, that