Analysis of In the Highlands
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
IN the highlands, in the country places,
Where the old plain men have rosy faces,
And the young fair maidens
Quiet eyes;
Where essential silence cheers and blesses,
And for ever in the hill-recesses
Her more lovely music
Broods and dies--
O to mount again where erst I haunted;
Where the old red hills are bird-enchanted,
And the low green meadows
Bright with sward;
And when even dies, the million-tinted,
And the night has come, and planets glinted,
Lo, the valley hollow
Lamp-bestarr'd!
O to dream, O to awake and wander
There, and with delight to take and render,
Through the trance of silence,
Quiet breath!
Lo! for there, among the flowers and grasses,
Only the mightier movement sounds and passes;
Only winds and rivers,
Life and death.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0010001010 1011111010 001110 101 1010101010 0110001100 011010 101 1110111110 1011111010 00111 111 0110101010 001110101 101010 11 1111101010 1010111010 101110 101 11101010010 100100101010 101010 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 787 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 195 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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