This is an analysis of To Alison Cunningham, From Her Boy by Robert Louis Stevenson.

For the long nights you lay awake
And watched for my unworthy sake:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbb ccddbb bbXXee
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
  • Metre: 10111101 11110101 11110001 111100101 11010111 11011100 11111111 01110101 11010111 01001101 00111111 11010111 110101111 11110111 110011111 0011011001 11001101 11110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

for, you, all, my

Anaphora

for