Analysis of So Live, So Love, So Use That Fragile Hour
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
SO live, so love, so use that fragile hour,
That when the dark hand of the shining power
Shall one from other, wife or husband, take,
The poor survivor may not weep and wake.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11111111010 11011101010 1111011101 0101011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 179 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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