Analysis of Epitaphium Erotii
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
HERE lies Erotion, whom at six years old
Fate pilfered. Stranger (when I too am cold,
Who shall succeed me in my rural field),
To this small spirit annual honours yield!
Bright be thy hearth, hale be thy babes, I crave
And this, in thy green farm, the only grave.
| Scheme | AABBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Sestain |
| Metre | 11111111 1101011111 1101101101 1111010011 1111111111 0101110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 267 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 202 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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