Analysis of Still I Love To Rhyme
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
STILL I love to rhyme, and still more, rhyming, to wander
Far from the commoner way;
Old-time trills and falls by the brook-side still do I ponder,
Dreaming to-morrow to-day.
Come here, come, revive me, Sun-God, teach me, Apollo,
Measures descanted before;
Since I ancient verses, I emulous follow,
Prints in the marbles of yore.
Still strange, strange, they sound in old-young raiment invested,
Songs for the brain to forget -
Young song-birds elate to grave old temples benested
Piping and chirruping yet.
Thoughts? No thought has yet unskilled attempted to flutter
Trammelled so vilely in verse;
He who writes but aims at fame and his bread and his butter,
Won with a groan and a curse.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF AGAG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111101110110 1101001 11101101111110 1011011 1110111111010 10101 1110101110 1001011 111110111010 1101101 11101111101 10011 1111101010110 11101 11111110110110 1101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 683 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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