Analysis of To What Shall I Compare Her?
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
TO what shall I compare her,
That is as fair as she?
For she is fairer - fairer
Than the sea.
What shall be likened to her,
The sainted of my youth?
For she is truer - truer
Than the truth.
As the stars are from the sleeper,
Her heart is hid from me;
For she is deeper - deeper
Than the sea.
Yet in my dreams I view her
Flush rosy with new ruth -
Dreams! Ah, may these prove truer
Than the truth.
| Scheme | abaBacaC abaBacaC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111010 111111 1111010 101 1111010 010111 1111010 101 10111010 011111 1111010 101 1011110 110111 1111110 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 390 |
| Words | 87 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 148 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 17, 2023
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