Analysis of Know You The River NEar To Grez
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
KNOW you the river near to Grez,
A river deep and clear?
Among the lilies all the way,
That ancient river runs to-day
From snowy weir to weir.
Old as the Rhine of great renown,
She hurries clear and fast,
She runs amain by field and town
From south to north, from up to down,
To present on from past.
The love I hold was borne by her;
And now, though far away,
My lonely spirit hears the stir
Of water round the starling spur
Beside the bridge at Grez.
So may that love forever hold
In life an equal pace;
So may that love grow never old,
But, clear and pure and fountain-cold,
Go on from grace to grace.
Scheme | AXBBX CDCCD EBEEA FAFFA |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11010111 010101 01010101 11010111 110111 11011101 110101 1111101 11111111 110111 01111110 011101 11010101 11010101 010111 11110101 011101 11111101 11010101 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 593 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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