Analysis of The Far-Farers
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
THE broad sun,
The bright day:
White sails
On the blue bay:
The far-farers
Draw away.
Light the fires
And close the door.
To the old homes,
To the loved shore,
The far-farers
Return no more.
| Scheme | xabaBa xcxcBc |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011 011 11 1011 011 101 1010 0101 1011 1011 011 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 187 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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