Analysis of Small Is The Trust When Love Is Green
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
SMALL is the trust when love is green
In sap of early years;
A little thing steps in between
And kisses turn to tears.
Awhile - and see how love be grown
In loveliness and power!
Awhile, it loves the sweets alone,
But next it loves the sour.
A little love is none at all
That wanders or that fears;
A hearty love dwells still at call
To kisses or to tears.
Such then be mine, my love to give,
And such be yours to take:-
A faith to hold, a life to live,
For lovingkindness' sake:
Should you be sad, should you be gay,
Or should you prove unkind,
A love to hold the growing way
And keep the helping mind:-
A love to turn the laugh on care
When wrinkled care appears,
And, with an equal will, to share
Your losses and your tears.
Scheme | ABAC DEDE FBFC XGXG HIHI JBJC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 11011111 011101 01011001 010111 01011111 01010 01110101 1111010 01011111 110111 01011111 110111 11111111 011111 01110111 111 11111111 111101 01110101 010101 01110111 110101 01110111 110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 712 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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