This is an analysis of The Gardener by Robert Louis Stevenson.

The gardener does not love to talk,
He makes me keep the gravel walk;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd ccbb eeffXeebb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 010011101 11110101 11110101 11011101 01010101 11111111 10011111 11100111 110101111 11000100 110101101 11010101 10100101 11010101 10010111 1111101 11110101 01011101 11110110 011100101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

he, to, and