Analysis of The Angler Rose, He Took His Rod
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
THE angler rose, he took his rod,
He kneeled and made his prayers to God.
The living God sat overhead:
The angler tripped, the eels were fed
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Balliol rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 01011111 11011111 01011101 01010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 145 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 31, 2023
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