Analysis of I Know Not How, But As I Count
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
I KNOW not how, but as I count
The beads of former years,
Old laughter catches in my throat
With the very feel of tears.
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111111 011101 11010011 1010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 125 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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