Analysis of De Ligurra
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
YOU fear, Ligurra - above all, you long -
That I should smite you with a stinging song.
This dreadful honour you both fear and hope -
Both all in vain: you fall below my scope.
The Lybian lion tears the roaring bull,
He does not harm the midge along the pool.
Lo! if so close this stands in your regard,
From some blind tap fish forth a drunken barn,
Who shall with charcoal, on the privy wall,
Immortalise your name for once and all.
Scheme | AABBXX XXCC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11101111 1111110101 110111101 1101110111 011010101 1111010101 1111110101 1111110101 111110101 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 433 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 167 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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