This is an analysis of Sonnet I by Robert Louis Stevenson.

NOR judge me light, tho' light at times I seem,
And lightly in the stress of fortune bear…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaccadbcdbc
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111111111 1100010101 001000101001 1111101101 1001010101 11010110001 1101010101 00110101001 1101101001 01011101001 1101110101 1101110111 1100111001 1101010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

nor, light

Anaphora

shall