This is an analysis of Shadow March by Robert Louis Stevenson.
All around the house is the jet-black night;
It stares through the window-pane;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXab bcbc dede
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 1010100111 0110101 01001010001 10100101 111011010101 0010010011 11010101010111 111001101 01100100011001 0110011101 10101110111 0011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
it, and, of, tramp, shadow
Anaphora
it, and, the