This is an analysis of Winter-Time by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Late lies the wintry sun a-bed,
A frosty, fiery sleepy-head;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXX ddee ffcc aagg
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11010101 010100101 111101111 01110101 01011101 11000111 110001100 10110111 110101011 01110101 10011101 01010101 10111111 10110011 01111111 01010111 11111101 11110101 11111111 11010101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

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