This is an analysis of The Sick Child by Robert Louis Stevenson.
CHILD.
O Mother, lay your hand on my brow!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbcc deebb affggff dhhaaii
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,7,7,
- Metre: 1 110111111 110101111 10011111 111100111 10 11110101 10011111 10110111 110010111 1 101011011 100111111 11111101 110111101 111111111 111110101 10 10010101 10110110 11011111011 0110100101 111111001 1100110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
mother, i, and
Anaphora
o, why, nothing, some
