Analysis of In The Green And Gallant Spring
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
IN the green and gallant Spring,
Love and the lyre I thought to sing,
And kisses sweet to give and take
By the flowery hawthorn brake.
Now is russet Autumn here,
Death and the grave and winter drear,
And I must ponder here aloof
While the rain is on the roof.
| Scheme | AABB CCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 0010101 10011111 01011101 1010011 1110101 10010101 01110101 1011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 260 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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