Analysis of Ad Quintilianum
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
O CHIEF director of the growing race,
Of Rome the glory and of Rome the grace,
Me, O Quintilian, may you not forgive
Before from labour I make haste to live?
Some burn to gather wealth, lay hands on rule,
Or with white statues fill the atrium full.
The talking hearth, the rafters sweet with smoke,
Live fountains and rough grass, my line invoke:
A sturdy slave, not too learned wife,
Nights filled with slumber, and a quiet life.
Scheme | AABCDEFFGG |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1101010101 1101001101 11111101 011111111 1111011111 1111101001 0101010111 1100111101 01011111 1111000101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 429 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 336 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 79 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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