This is an analysis of To My Name-Child by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Some day soon this rhyming volume, if you learn with proper speed,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X aabb ccdd eeee X ddee ffdd
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,1,4,4,
  • Metre: 1 111010100110101 1010100010101 1110101111101 1010101010101 001110101011111 1010100010101 1110101011101 1010101010101 111110101010101 1010101010011 1010100110101 1110101111101 1 111111101011111 1011111010101 10101010001010101 101001010101 101001101011101 1111101111101 111110111010101 1110101010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 22

Repeated words/phrases

you, and, in

Anaphora

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