Analysis of The Clock's Clear Voice Into The Clearer Air
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
THE cock's clear voice into the clearer air
Where westward far I roam,
Mounts with a thrill of hope,
Falls with a sigh of home.
A rural sentry, he from farm and field
The coming morn descries,
And, mankind's bugler, wakes
The camp of enterprise.
He sings the morn upon the westward hills
Strange and remote and wild;
He sings it in the land
Where once I was a child.
He brings to me dear voices of the past,
The old land and the years:
My father calls for me,
My weeping spirit hears.
Fife, fife, into the golden air, O bird,
And sing the morning in;
For the old days are past
And new days begin.
Scheme | XAXA XBBB BCXC DBXB XEDE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 0111010101 110111 110111 110111 0101011101 01011 01111 01110 1101010101 100101 111001 111101 1111110101 011001 110111 110101 1101010111 010100 101111 01101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 585 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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