This is an analysis of The Spaewife by Robert Louis Stevenson.
OH, I wad like to ken—to the beggar-wife says I—
Why chops are guid to brander and nane sae guid to fry.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXA AaaA AaaA AXaAXAaaA
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1111010010111 1111010111101 110111101010101 011110101010101 1111010010111 1101001110111 0100111010001 011110101010101 1111010010111 111001100001 11001100110111 011110101010101 1111010010111 111101110001 11110111110101 011110101010101 1111010010111 01010110100101 110100101010011 011110101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
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