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

I saw you toss the kites on high
And blow the birds about the sky;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbCC ddeeCCXddaaCC
  • Stanza lengths: 6,13,
  • Metre: 11110111 11010101 11011111 11110101 11010111 11111101 110100110 11111011 11111111 11111011 11010111 11111101 11111111 11011111 11010111 11010111 11010111 11111101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

you, i

Anaphora

and, o, i