Analysis of Ad Magistrum Ludi
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
NOW in the sky
And on the hearth of
Now in a drawer the direful cane,
That sceptre of the . . . reign,
And the long hawser, that on the back
Of Marsyas fell with many a whack,
Twice hardened out of Scythian hides,
Now sleep till the October ides.
In summer if the boys be well.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001 01011 1001011 110101 00111101 11111001 110111001 11100101 01010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 277 |
Words | 57 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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