Analysis of Since Years Ago For Evermore
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
SINCE years ago for evermore
My cedar ship I drew to shore;
And to the road and riverbed
And the green, nodding reeds, I said
Mine ignorant and last farewell:
Now with content at home I dwell,
And now divide my sluggish life
Betwixt my verses and my wife:
In vain; for when the lamp is lit
And by the laughing fire I sit,
Still with the tattered atlas spread
Interminable roads I tread.
| Scheme | AABBCCDDEEBB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101110 11011111 0101010 00110111 1100011 11101111 01011101 01110011 01110111 010101011 11010101 01000111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 383 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 304 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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