Analysis of Come, My Beloved, Hear From Me

Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)



COME, my beloved, hear from me
Tales of the woods or open sea.
Let our aspiring fancy rise
A wren's flight higher toward the skies;
Or far from cities, brown and bare,
Play at the least in open air.
In all the tales men hear us tell
Still let the unfathomed ocean swell,
Or shallower forest sound abroad
Below the lonely stars of God;
In all, let something still be done,
Still in a corner shine the sun,
Slim-ankled maids be fleet of foot,
Nor man disown the rural flute.
Still let the hero from the start
In honest sweat and beats of heart
Push on along the untrodden road
For some inviolate abode.
Still, O beloved, let me hear
The great bell beating far and near-
The odd, unknown, enchanted gong
That on the road hales men along,
That from the mountain calls afar,
That lures a vessel from a star,
And with a still, aerial sound
Makes all the earth enchanted ground.
Love, and the love of life and act
Dance, live and sing through all our furrowed tract;
Till the great God enamoured gives
To him who reads, to him who lives,
That rare and fair romantic strain
That whoso hears must hear again.


Scheme AABBCCDDEFGGHIJJKKLMNNOOPPQQRRST
Poetic Form
Metre 1101111 11011101 110010101 011100101 11110101 11010101 01011111 1101101 110010101 01010111 01110111 10010101 1111111 11010101 11010101 01010111 1101011 11010001 1101111 01110101 01010101 11011101 11010101 11010101 01011001 11010101 10011101 11011110101 101111 11111111 11010101 1111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,076
Words 209
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 32
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 860
Words per stanza (avg) 207
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. more…

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