This is an analysis of St. Martin's Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson.

AS swallows turning backward
When half-way o'er the sea,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXbcb DdXdDdXacCcCc
  • Stanza lengths: 6,13,
  • Metre: 1101010 1111001 1111010 110101 0111010 110101 1111010 110011 1111110 111111 1111010 110111 1011010 101101 11101010 1110001 11101010 111101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Anaphora

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