Analysis of Thou Strainest Through The Mountain Fern
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
THOU strainest through the mountain fern,
A most exiguously thin Burn.
For all thy foam, for all thy din,
Thee shall the pallid lake inurn,
With well-a-day for Mr. Swin-Burne!
Take then this quarto in thy fin
And, O thou stoker huge and stern,
The whole affair, outside and in,
Burn!
But save the true poetic kin,
The works of Mr. Robert Burn'
And William Wordsworth upon Tin-Tern!
| Scheme | AABAABABABAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110101 01111 11111111 1101011 110111011 11110011 01110101 01011100 1 11010101 01110101 010100111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 378 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 294 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 68 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 27, 2023
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