This is an analysis of The Wind Blew Shrill And Smart by Robert Louis Stevenson.

THE wind blew shrill and smart,
And the wind awoke my heart…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabccb aadccd eefeef
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
  • Metre: 011111 1010111 01010101001 010101 1010101 10101010101 110001 0010101 0101010101 011101 1010101 10101010111 011111 1011101 1111010111 110101 0010101 10100010111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

it's, to, and, death

Anaphora

and, it's