Analysis of You Looked So Tempting In The Pew
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
YOU looked so tempting in the pew,
You looked so sly and calm -
My trembling fingers played with yours
As both looked out the Psalm.
Your heart beat hard against my arm,
My foot to yours was set,
Your loosened ringlet burned my cheek
Whenever they two met.
O little, little we hearkened, dear,
And little, little cared,
Although the parson sermonised,
The congregation stared.
| Scheme | XXXX XAXA XBAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 11110001 111101 110010111 111101 11110111 111111 1101111 010111 11010111 010101 10101 00101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 373 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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