Analysis of Away With Funeral Music
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
AWAY with funeral music - set
The pipe to powerful lips -
The cup of life's for him that drinks
And not for him that sips.
| Scheme | ABCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Ballad stanza Quatrain Simple 4-line |
| Metre | 011100101 0111001 01111111 011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 127 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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