Analysis of The Vanquished Knight
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
I HAVE left all upon the shameful field,
Honour and Hope, my God, and all but life;
Spurless, with sword reversed and dinted shield,
Degraded and disgraced, I leave the strife.
From him that hath not, shall there not be taken
E'en that he hath, when he deserts the strife?
Life left by all life's benefits forsaken,
O keep the promise, Lord, and take the life.
| Scheme | ABAB CBCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111010101 101110111 11101011 0100011101 11111111110 11111111001 11111100010 1101010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 361 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 139 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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