This is an analysis of The Light Keeper by Robert Louis Stevenson.

The brilliant kernel of the night,
The flaming lightroom circles me:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aba bcc deed
  • Stanza lengths: 3,3,4,
  • Metre: 01010001 01010101 11010101 11010101 11011111 011100111 110101001 10110101 1101101 110110011
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 10

Anaphora

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