Analysis of A Thought
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
It is very nice to think
The world is full of meat and drink,
With little children saying grace
In every Christian kind of place.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Balliol rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 1110111 01111101 11010101 010010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 137 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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