This is an analysis of Spring Carol by Robert Louis Stevenson.

WHEN loud by landside streamlets gush,
And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccb bbbbddb eebbbbbXbdbbbbb
  • Stanza lengths: 7,7,15,
  • Metre: 11110101 1100111001 011011 110011 10101 01001001 01001011 10110101 11000101 010010 001101010 11101 0010101 00101010 010100111 101010001 111011 110011 1011 11001001 11010011 110100101 101010101 10110011 101010011 11111 1001001 10010011
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

of, and

Anaphora

the, to, and