Analysis of Bed in Summer

Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)



In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.

I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?


Scheme AABB CCDD EEBB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 01011111 01110101 01010101 11111111 11111101 01110101 11011101 11011001 01111111 11011101 01111111 11111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 386
Words 88
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 97
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 24, 2023

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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