This is an analysis of Windy Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Whenever the moon and stars are set,
Whenever the wind is high,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababaacbcbdd
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 010011111 0100101 11100111 011101 1001101011 1111011001 0100111001 111111 11011111 1101011 110101111 1111101001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

by, at, gallop, he

Anaphora

whenever, by