Analysis of Music At The Villa Marina
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
FOR some abiding central source of power,
Strong-smitten steady chords, ye seem to flow
And, flowing, carry virtue. Far below,
The vain tumultuous passions of the hour
Fleet fast and disappear; and as the sun
Shines on the wake of tempests, there is cast
O'er all the shattered ruins of my past
A strong contentment as of battles won.
And yet I cry in anguish, as I hear
The long drawn pageant of your passage roll
Magnificently forth into the night.
To yon fair land ye come from, to yon sphere
Of strength and love where now ye shape your flight,
O even wings of music, bear my soul!
Ye have the power, if but ye had the will,
Strong-smitten steady chords in sequence grand,
To bear me forth into that tranquil land
Where good is no more ravelled up with ill;
Where she and I, remote upon some hill
Or by some quiet river's windless strand,
May live, and love, and wander hand in hand,
And follow nature simply, and be still.
From this grim world, where, sadly, prisoned, we
Sit bound with others' heart-strings as with chains,
And, if one moves, all suffer, - to that Goal,
If such a land, if such a sphere, there be,
Thither, from life and all life's joys and pains,
O even wings of music, bear my soul!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101110 1101011111 0101010101 01100101010 110010101 110111111 10101010111 0101011101 0111010111 0111011101 0100010101 1111111111 1101111111 1101110111 11010111101 1101010101 1111011101 111111111 1101010111 111101011 1101010101 0101010011 1111110101 1111011111 0111110111 1101110111 111011101 1101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,189 |
Words | 228 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6, 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 233 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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