This is an analysis of The Mirror Speaks by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Where the bells peal far at sea
Cunning fingers fashioned me.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcccdddeeccffggaahhXdff
  • Stanza lengths: 26,
  • Metre: 1011111 1010101 1110111 111001 11111101 10011001 100100101 1111111 0111101 1010101 1110101 10111101 1110001 1010101 1011111 1110111 11100101 1111101 1011101 1111101 1010101 001001011 00111100 1110101 1010101 1011101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 26

Repeated words/phrases

never, i, and

Anaphora

never, long