Analysis of My Love Was Warm
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
MY love was warm; for that I crossed
The mountains and the sea,
Nor counted that endeavour lost
That gave my love to me.
If that indeed were love at all,
As still, my love, I trow,
By what dear name am I to call
The bond that holds me now
| Scheme | ABAB CXCX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 11111111 010001 11010101 111111 11010111 111111 11111111 011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 239 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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