Analysis of Requiem
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me;
"Here he lies where he longed to be,
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill."
| Scheme | AAAB CCCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10010101 1010111 11110101 01111101 11011111 11111111 11010111 00101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 268 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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