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

AGAIN I hear you piping, for I know the tune so well, -
You rouse the heart to wander and be free,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc dbdbbcbc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 01111101110111 1101010101 11111101010111 11101011101 11010101010111 11101110111 11111101011101 11101110011 11010101010101 11101010011 11011111110101 10101010111 11111101010111 11111110101 11111101110101 11101110011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

you, and, my, pipe

Anaphora

you, and