This is an analysis of To Rosabelle by Robert Louis Stevenson.
WHEN my young lady has grown great and staid,
And in long raiment wondrously arrayed,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddd eeffggaagghhXfXeaaeeg gaaggccii
- Stanza lengths: 9,21,9,
- Metre: 1111011111 1011010001 1111000101 1101011101 1011010111 0011110100 11010101011 1011100001 10011101011 10010101101 10001010111 1011001 101111001 0101010101 1101111001 0101010111 0101000101 11010110001 1101100101 11010001001 0101010101 01010100010 1101011101 0101010110 1101110111 1101010111 1101010100 1001110111 0100100101 0101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101101101 1111110101 0101010101 1011110101 1101010001 1011010101 0111111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 39
Repeated words/phrases
she, her, to, and