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

My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky.
It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb aacc ddbb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11010101011101 0101010011101 110011101011111 01010101110101 11100101010101 11100101111110 11111101111001 1111111110101 11110100010101 1110101111101 11011101010101 1110101110101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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