Analysis of Romance
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
I WILL make you brooches and toys for your delight
Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night.
I will make a palace fit for you and me,
Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.
I will make my kitchen, and you shall keep your room,
Where white flows the river and bright blows the broom,
And you shall wash your linen and keep your body white
In rainfall at morning and dewfall at night.
And this shall be for music when no one else is near,
The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear!
That only I remember, that only you admire,
Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.
Scheme | AABB CCAA XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11111011101 11111001111 11101011101 11101001111 111110011111 11101001101 0111110011101 011100111 0111110111111 01111001111 1101010110101 101111000110 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 609 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 156 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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