This is an analysis of To Ottilie by Robert Louis Stevenson.

YOU remember, I suppose,
How the August sun arose,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabXcb cccddc
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,
  • Metre: 1010101 1010101 1101 1011100 1010101 0101 0010101 1011111 1111 1011101 1110101 0101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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