Analysis of Ad Martialem
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
GO(D) knows, my Martial, if we two could be
To enjoy our days set wholly free;
To the true life together bend our mind,
And take a furlough from the falser kind.
No rich saloon, nor palace of the great,
Nor suit at law should trouble our estate;
On no vainglorious statues should we look,
But of a walk, a talk, a little book,
Baths, wells and meads, and the veranda shade,
Let all our travels and our toils be made.
Now neither lives unto himself, alas!
And the good suns we see, that flash and pass
And perish; and the bell that knells them cries:
"Another gone: O when will ye arise?"
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111011111 1011011101 10110101101 010101011 1101110101 11111101001 1111111 1101010101 1101000101 111010010111 1101100101 0011111101 0100011111 0101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 582 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 448 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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