Analysis of Ne Sit Ancillae Tibi Amor Pudor
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
THERE'S just a twinkle in your eye
That seems to say I MIGHT, if I
Were only bold enough to try
An arm about your waist.
I hear, too, as you come and go,
That pretty nervous laugh, you know;
And then your cap is always so
Coquettishly displaced.
Your cap! the word's profanely said.
That little top-knot, white and red,
That quaintly crowns your graceful head,
No bigger than a flower,
Is set with such a witching art,
Is so provocatively smart,
I'd like to wear it on my heart,
An order for an hour!
O graceful housemaid, tall and fair,
I love your shy imperial air,
And always loiter on the stair
When you are going by.
A strict reserve the fates demand;
But, when to let you pass I stand,
Sometimes by chance I touch your hand
And sometimes catch your eye.
Scheme | AAABCCCB DDDEFFFE GGGAHHHA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010011 11111111 01010111 110111 11111101 11010111 0111111 101 110111 11011101 11011101 1101010 11110101 11010001 11111111 1101110 1101101 111101001 0110101 111101 01010101 11111111 01111111 001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 744 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 195 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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