Analysis of I WHo All The Winter Through

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



I WHO all the winter through
Cherished other loves than you,
And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew;
Now I know the false and true,
For the earnest sun looks through,
And my old love comes to meet me in the dawning and the dew.

Now the hedged meads renew
Rustic odour, smiling hue,
And the clean air shines and tinkles as the world goes wheeling through;
And my heart springs up anew,
Bright and confident and true,
And my old love comes to meet me in the dawning and the dew.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1110101 1010111 011110100010101 1110101 1010111 011111110010001 101101 101101 00111011011101 0111101 1010001 011111110010001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 491
Words 97
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 6
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 194
Words per stanza (avg) 48
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 07, 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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