Analysis of Hail, Guest, And Enter Freely!

Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)



HAIL, guest, and enter freely!  All you see
Is, for your momentary visit, yours; and we
Who welcome you are but the guests of God,
And know not our departure.


Scheme AABC
Poetic Form
Metre 1101010111 11110010101 1101110111 01110010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 163
Words 32
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 120
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. more…

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