Analysis of Love's Vicissitudes
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
AS Love and Hope together
Walk by me for a while,
Link-armed the ways they travel
For many a pleasant mile -
Link-armed and dumb they travel,
They sing not, but they smile.
Hope leaving, Love commences
To practise on the lute;
And as he sings and travels
With lingering, laggard foot,
Despair plays obligato
The sentimental flute.
Until in singing garments
Comes royally, at call -
Comes limber-hipped Indiff'rence
Free stepping, straight and tall -
Comes singing and lamenting,
The sweetest pipe of all.
| Scheme | XABABA CDXXDD XECEXE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101010 111101 1101110 1100101 1101110 111111 1101010 11101 0111010 1100101 0111 00101 0101010 110011 11011 110101 1100010 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 495 |
| Words | 87 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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