This is an analysis of Since Thou Hast Given Me This Good Hope, O God by Robert Louis Stevenson.
SINCE thou hast given me this good hope, O God,
That while my footsteps tread the flowery sod…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbaccdecdedada
- Stanza lengths: 16,
- Metre: 11110100111 11111101001 10111001111 1101010111 0101110111 1111110101 11010101 11111011 0001011001 1111110101 1111010101 1111111111 1111101100 1101110011 0111110111 1011111001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
and, me, my, of
Anaphora
and, my
