Analysis of Lo, Now, My Guest
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
LO, now, my guest, if aught amiss were said,
Forgive it and dismiss it from your head.
For me, for you, for all, to close the date,
Pass now the ev'ning sponge across the slate;
And to that spirit of forgiveness keep
Which is the parent and the child of sleep.
Scheme | AABBCC |
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Poetic Form | Sestain |
Metre | 1111110101 0110011111 1111111101 1101110101 0111010101 1101000111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 263 |
Words | 53 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 198 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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