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
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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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. more…

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