This is an analysis of To Mrs. Will. H. Low. by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Even in the bluest noonday of July,
There could not run the smallest breath of wind…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbXXcXXdaXdXcaXXeeX
  • Stanza lengths: 20,
  • Metre: 10001010001 1111010101 1101010101 10010010101 0101011101 0101010001 0101010101 1011010111 1110011101 1101011011 10001110101 1011010101 0011010101 1011011111 0110010101 11110010001 1101111011 1101011111 1011010101 1111010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

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