Analysis of The Celestial Surgeon
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
IF I have faltered more or less
In my great task of happiness;
If I have moved among my race
And shown no glorious morning face;
If beams from happy human eyes
Have moved me not; if morning skies,
Books, and my food, and summer rain
Knocked on my sullen heart in vain:—
Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take
And stab my spirit broad awake;
Or, Lord, if too obdurate I,
Choose thou, before that spirit die,
A piercing pain, a killing sin,
And to my dead heart run them in.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 01111100 11110111 011100101 11110101 11111101 10110101 11110101 11110101 01110101 11111001 11011101 01010101 01111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 480 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 362 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 91 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 25, 2023
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