Analysis of Variant Form Of The Preceding Poem

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



COME to me, all ye that labour; I will give your spirits rest;
Here apart in starry quiet I will give you rest.
Come to me, ye heavy laden, sin defiled and care opprest,
In your father's quiet mansions, soon to prove a welcome guest.
But an hour you bear your trial, sin and suffer, bleed and die;
But an hour you toil and combat here in day's inspiring eye.
See the feet of your deliverer; lo, the hour of freedom nigh.


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Poetic Form
Metre 11111111111101 1010101011111 1111101011011 011010101110101 1110111101010101 1110110101010101 10111010010101101
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 422
Words 84
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 46
Words per line (avg) 12
Letters per stanza (avg) 321
Words per stanza (avg) 82
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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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