This is an analysis of To Miss Cornish by Robert Louis Stevenson.

THEY tell me, lady, that to-day
On that unknown Australian strand -…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcbcb dbdbebeb aaaafafa
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
  • Metre: 11110101 11010101 11011101 01010101 11010001 1000100101 11010111 11110101 11011111 01010100 11010001 110011101 11111111 1111101001 0101101011 11101101 11000111 01010101 10110111 01110111 10010010 011100101 111101011 11011011
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

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