This is an analysis of Where Go The Boats? by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Dark brown is the river,
Golden is the sand.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeXe afXf
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 110010 10001 0101110 011101 11010 10001 101010 10111 11010 11101 011010 01101 011010 0101011 101010 111101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Anaphora

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