Analysis of The Rustic Life.

Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)



Happy are ye who can put by the stress
Of so much of the trouble worldlings know;
Ye who seem almost creatures of the woods,
Now animal and now bird-like amid
The quiet pleasance of your leafy lives;
Though sorrow may be yours, and Death will come
Even like a pilgrim o'er the hills to you.


Scheme ABCDEFG
Poetic Form
Metre 1011111101 111101011 111110101 1100011101 010111101 1101110111 101010100111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 292
Words 58
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 228
Words per stanza (avg) 56
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Crawford

Robert Crawford FRSE FBA is a Scottish poet, scholar and critic. He is currently Professor of English at the University of St Andrews.  more…

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