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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