This is an analysis of So Live, So Love, So Use That Fragile Hour by Robert Louis Stevenson.

SO live, so love, so use that fragile hour,
That when the dark hand of the shining power…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 11111111010 11011001010 1101011101 0101011111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4

Repeated words/phrases

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