Analysis of Come, Here Is Adieu To The City
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
COME, here is adieu to the city
And hurrah for the country again.
The broad road lies before me
Watered with last night's rain.
The timbered country woos me
With many a high and bough;
And again in the shining fallows
The ploughman follows the plough.
The whole year's sweat and study,
And the whole year's sowing time,
Comes now to the perfect harvest,
And ripens now into rhyme.
For we that sow in the Autumn,
We reap our grain in the Spring,
And we that go sowing and weeping
Return to reap and sing.
Scheme | AXAXABXB ACXCXDDD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011010 001101001 0111011 101111 011011 1100101 00100101 011001 0111010 0011101 11100110 011011 11110010 11101001 011110010 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 496 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 197 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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