Analysis of St. Martin's Summer
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
AS swallows turning backward
When half-way o'er the sea,
At one word's trumpet summons
They came again to me -
The hopes I had forgotten
Came back again to me.
I know not which to credit,
O lady of my heart!
Your eyes that bade me linger,
Your words that bade us part -
I know not which to credit,
My reason or my heart.
But be my hopes rewarded,
Or be they but in vain,
I have dreamed a golden vision,
I have gathered in the grain -
I have dreamed a golden vision,
I have not lived in vain.
| Scheme | xaxaba CdxdCd xeBeBe |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101010 1111001 1111010 110111 0111010 110111 1111110 110111 1111110 111111 1111110 110111 1111010 111101 11101010 1110001 11101010 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 482 |
| Words | 103 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 12, 2023
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