Analysis of Katherine
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
We see you as we see a face
That trembles in a forest place
Upon the mirror of a pool
Forever quiet, clear and cool;
And in the wayward glass, appears
To hover between smiles and tears,
Elfin and human, airy and true,
And backed by the reflected blue.
Scheme | AABBCDEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 1100101 01010101 01010101 00010101 11001101 100101001 01100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 252 |
Words | 51 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 196 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 31, 2023
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