This is an analysis of The Dumb Soldier by Robert Louis Stevenson.
When the grass was closely mown,
Walking on the lawn alone,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xabb ccdd eeaa aaff fXgg hhii eecc bbaa eejj
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1011101 1010101 0010111 11010101 01110101 1011101 1011011 10011011 1010111 1010101 1011101 0011001 1010111 1010101 1010101 1111101 1111101 1111100 1111111 1111101 1110101 00101001 1011111 1111101 11101010 10100010 1010111 0010001 0010111 1011101 1010111 10111101 1010101 1010111 1111101 1110111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
when, i, find
Anaphora
grasses, when, i, and, in, not
