Analysis of To Madame Garschine
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
WHAT is the face, the fairest face, till Care,
Till Care the graver - Care with cunning hand,
Etches content thereon and makes it fair,
Or constancy, and love, and makes it grand?
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1101010111 1101011101 1010010111 1100010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 184 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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