Analysis of De M. Antonio
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
NOW Antoninus, in a smiling age,
Counts of his life the fifteenth finished stage.
The rounded days and the safe years he sees,
Nor fears death's water mounting round his knees.
To him remembering not one day is sad,
Not one but that its memory makes him glad.
So good men lengthen life; and to recall
The past is to have twice enjoyed it all.
| Scheme | AABBCCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1100101 1111001101 0101001111 1111010111 11010011111 11111100111 111101011 0111110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 343 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 268 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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