Analysis of To Robert Louis Stevenson
Alfred Austin 1835 (Leeds) – 1913 (Ashford)
I never saw you, never grasped your hand,
Nor wrote nor read lines absence loves to trace,
Ne'er with you sate in your accustomed place,
Nor waited for your coming on sea or land.
But this I know, if along unseen strand,
Or anywhere in God's eternal space,
You heard my voice, or I beheld your face,
That we should greet, and both would understand.
So, till that hour, wherever you abide,
On circling star, or interstellar sea,
Or where, from man's imagination free,
There moves no planet and there sounds no tide,
Welcome, as though from friend long known and tried,
This gift of loving fellowship from me.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110111 1111110111 1111010101 11011101111 1111101011 110010101 111111111 111101101 11110010101 1100110101 111100101 1111001111 1011111101 111101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 602 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 473 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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