Analysis of Strange Are The Ways Of Men
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
STRANGE are the ways of men,
And strange the ways of God!
We tread the mazy paths
That all our fathers trod.
We tread them undismayed,
And undismayed behold
The portents of the sky,
The things that were of old.
The fiery stars pursue
Their course in heav'n on high;
And round the 'leaguered town,
Crest-tossing heroes cry.
Crest-tossing heroes cry;
And martial fifes declare
How small, to mortal minds,
Is merely mortal care.
And to the clang of steel
And cry of piercing flute
Upon the azure peaks
A God shall plant his foot:
A God in arms shall stand,
And seeing wide and far
The green and golden earth,
The killing tide of war,
He, with uplifted arm,
Shall to the skies proclaim
The gleeful fate of man,
The noble road to fame!
Scheme | xaxa abcb xcxC Cdxd xxxx xxxx xexe |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (57%) |
Metre | 110111 010111 11011 1110101 1111 0101 01101 011011 0100101 110111 01011 110101 110101 010101 111101 110101 010111 011101 010101 011111 010111 010101 010101 010111 111001 110101 010111 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 711 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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