Analysis of Fixed Is The Doom
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
FIXED is the doom; and to the last of years
Teacher and taught, friend, lover, parent, child,
Each walks, though near, yet separate; each beholds
His dear ones shine beyond him like the stars.
We also, love, forever dwell apart;
With cries approach, with cries behold the gulph,
The Unvaulted; as two great eagles that do wheel in air
Above a mountain, and with screams confer,
Far heard athwart the cedars.
Yet the years
Shall bring us ever nearer; day by day
Endearing, week by week, till death at last
Dissolve that long divorce. By faith we love,
Not knowledge; and by faith, though far removed,
Dwell as in perfect nearness, heart to heart.
We but excuse
Those things we merely are; and to our souls
A brave deception cherish.
So from unhappy war a man returns
Unfearing, or the seaman from the deep;
So from cool night and woodlands to a feast
May someone enter, and still breathe of dews,
And in her eyes still wear the dusky night.
Scheme | ABACDEFGHAIJEKDLMNOPQRS |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010111 1001110101 111111011 1111011101 1101010101 1101110101 011111011101 0101001101 1101010 101 1111010111 0101111111 0111011111 1100111101 110011111 1101 11110101101 0101010 1101010101 11010101 111101101 111001111 000111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 926 |
Words | 172 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 23 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 734 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 171 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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