Analysis of Mine Eyes Were Swift To Know Thee
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
MINE eyes were swift to know thee, and my heart
As swift to love. I did become at once
Thine wholly, thine unalterably, thine
In honourable service, pure intent,
Steadfast excess of love and laughing care:
And as she was, so am, and so shall be.
I knew thee helpful, knew thee true, knew thee
And Pity bedfellows: I heard thy talk
With answerable throbbings. On the stream,
Deep, swift, and clear, the lilies floated; fish
Through the shadows ran. There, thou and I
Read Kindness in our eyes and closed the match.
| Scheme | ABCDEFFGHIJK |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101111011 1111110111 1101010001 0110101 11110101 0111110111 1111011111 010101111 110001101 1101010101 10111101 11001010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 513 |
| Words | 95 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 399 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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