Analysis of Loud And Low In The Chimney
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
LOUD and low in the chimney
The squalls suspire;
Then like an answer dwindles
And glows the fire,
And the chamber reddens and darkens
In time like taken breath.
Near by the sounding chimney
The youth apart
Hearkens with changing colour
And leaping heart,
And hears in the coil of the tempest
The voice of love and death.
Love on high in the flute-like
And tender notes
Sounds as from April meadows
And hillside cotes;
But the deep wood wind in the chimney
Utters the slogan of death.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010010 011 1111010 01010 0010101 011101 1101010 0101 101101 0101 010011010 011101 1110011 0101 111101 011 101110010 1001011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 474 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 388 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 88 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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