Analysis of Light As The Linnet On My Way I Start
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
LIGHT as the linnet on my way I start,
For all my pack I bear a chartered heart.
Forth on the world without a guide or chart,
Content to know, through all man's varying fates,
The eternal woman by the wayside waits.
| Scheme | AAABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 1101011111 1111110101 1101010111 10111111001 0010101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 219 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 167 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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