Analysis of Ad Se Ipsum
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
DEAR sir, good-morrow! Five years back,
When you first girded for this arduous track,
And under various whimsical pretexts
Endowed another with your damned defects,
Could you have dreamed in your despondent vein
That the kind God would make your path so plain?
Non nobis, domine! O, may He still
Support my stumbling footsteps on the hill!
| Scheme | AABBCCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110111 1111111001 0101001001 0101011110 1111010101 1011111111 1100101111 0111001101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 342 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 272 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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