Analysis of Frag1
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
About my fields, in the broad sun
And blaze of noon, there goeth one,
Barefoot and robed in blue, to scan
With the hard eye of the husbandman
My harvests and my cattle. Her,
When even puts the birds astir
And day has set in the great woods,
We seek, among her garden roods,
With bells and cries in vain: the while
Lamps, plate, and the decanter smile
On the forgotten board. But she,
Deaf, blind, and prone on face and knee,
Forgets time, family, and feast,
And digs like a demented beast.
Scheme | AABACCDDEEFFGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110011 0111111 1010111 1011101 11001100 1101011 01110011 11010101 11010101 110011 10010111 11011101 01110001 01100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 486 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 376 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 95 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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