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

Youth now flees on feathered foot
Faint and fainter sounds the flute,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddcc eeff aaggXa hhddhhiiee
  • Stanza lengths: 10,4,6,10,
  • Metre: 1111101 1110101 1010111 1110101 1010101 1011101 1110101 1101101 1110111 1110111 0011101 1011111 1011101 1010101 10100111 01010111 1011101 1011101 1010111 1010100 0111101 1111101 1010111 1010101 10111101 1010101 1110101 0011001 1010111 1110111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

still