Analysis of Henry James
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
Who comes to-night? We open the doors in vain.
Who comes? My bursting walls, can you contain
The presences that now together throng
Your narrow entry, as with flowers and song,
As with the air of life, the breath of talk?
Lo, how these fair immaculate women walk
Behind their jocund maker; and we see
Slighted De Mauves, and that far different she,
Gressie, the trivial sphynx; and to our feast
Daisy and Barb and Chancellor (she not least!)
With all their silken, all their airy kin,
Do like unbidden angels enter in.
But he, attended by these shining names,
Comes (best of all) himself—our welcome James.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111100101 1111011101 0100110101 11010111001 1101110111 11110100101 011110011 10110111001 10100101101 10010100111 1111011101 11110100 1101011101 11110110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 603 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 473 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 09, 2023
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